A small boy who appeared on a new IS killing video alongside a British-accented IS militant has been confirmed as Isa Dare, the son of Grace Dare, a British woman who went to Syria in 2012.
The child's grandfather Henry Dare confirmed to The Telegraph that the young boy in the video is his grandson.
The child is shown in IS's latest execution-style killing video saying that militants will kill "unbelievers."
The IS group is not the only extremist group to carry out brutal execution-style killings.
Al-Qaeda militants in Yemen have stoned a woman to death in the southwestern Yemeni city of Mukalla after accusing her of adultery, witnesses say.
One witness said the militants "placed the woman in a hole in the middle of the courtyard of a military building and stoned her to death in the presence of dozens of residents."
The Lebanese group Hizbollah has issued a statement claiming responsibility for the attack on an Israeli army vehicle in the Lebanese border area.
Hizbollah said that the attack was carried out by Samir Qantar's group, referring to the Hizballah leader killed in Damascus last month in what Hizballah says was an Israeli air to surface missile.
Lebanese media is reporting that Israeli shells have hit the southern Lebanese town of Al Wazzani, with initial reports of injuries and damage.
The shelling comes after reports that the Lebanese group Hizbollah targeted an Israeli army patrol in the Har Dov area along the border with an explosive device. Israeli authorities have told residents in the area to remain home, Israel's Haaretz daily is reporting.
The reports follow the killing in the Syrian capital Damascus last month of Hizballah leader Samir Qantar. Hizballah and Syrian state media said Qantar had been killed in an Israeli air strike; Israel stopped short of confirming responsibility for the strike. Hizballah has sent hundreds of militants into Syria to support Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
A Petrol Facilities Guard source has told Reuters that two IS suicide bombers targeted the Sidra oil export terminal earlier, killing two guards.
But the IS militants have now retreated to neighboring areas, the source says.
AFP is quoting an army source as saying that IS launched a suicide car bomb on a military checkpoint at the entrance to the town of Sidra.
Bashir Boudhfira, a colonel in the army loyal to Libya's internationally recognized government, told AFP that IS militants then clashed with troops guarding the Ras Lanouf oil facility but were pushed back. Two soldiers were killed, according to Boudhfira.
IS's claims that it has taken over the Libyan town of Bin Jawad have not been commented on by anyone from Libya's authorities, Reuters is reporting.
Bin Jawad is close to the Sidra oil export terminal where witnesses say there have been clashes with IS militants and a local militia and where IS have detonated at least one suicide car bomb.
AP is quoting a spokesman for the armed group that controls most of Libya's oil fields as saying that IS's Libyan affiliate detonated two car bombs at a checkpoint near Sidra. Reports have emerged earlier today saying that IS used suicide car bombs in its assault on Sidra.
AP reports:
Ali al-Hassi, a spokesman for the forces that control the majority of Libya's oil fields, says six of their fighters were killed in Monday's attacks, along with five IS fighters in the coastal port town of [Sidra].
The United States and its allies conducted 25 strikes against the IS group in Iraq on January 3, the coalition leading the operations said in a statement released today.
Britain's Prime Minister, David Cameron, has called the recent IS killing video featuring a male militant and a young boy with British accents, "desperate stuff."
The video shows that the IS group is "losing territory" and "increasingly losing anybody's sympathy", Cameron said, according to the BBC.