AFP have shared this graphic showing the locations and casualty figures from the two suicide bombings yesterday in Libya that killed more than 56 people.
IS has claimed responsibility for the attack at Ras Lanuf in Libya's oil crescent -- which the militant group has attacked several times this week -- but it is still unknown who was behind the deadlier attack at Zliten.
No group has yet claimed responsibility for yesterday's suicide attack on Zliten that killed over 50 people.
Special-forces raids on an Islamic State stronghold in northern Iraq are under way before a planned offensive to retake Mosul, Iraq's parliamentary speaker Salim al-Jabouri told Reuters on January 7.
The IS group has claimed responsibility for a suicide car bombing yesterday (Janauary 7) in Ras Lanuf, an oil port in Libya's oil crescent. AFP is reporting this morning.
IS's Libyan affiliate released a statement saying that the attack east of the IS-held coastal town of Sirte, was carried out by a foreign fighter using an explosives-packed car.
No group has yet taken responsibility for a second suicide bombing on January 7 in Zliten, west of Tripoli, which killed over 50 people including a baby.
This concludes our live blogging on the Islamic State group for January 6. Check back here tomorrow for more of our continuing coverage.
The IS group has built a research center devoted to launching attacks in the West using driverless cars and rehabilitated anti-aircraft missiles, new footage from inside the terror group reveals, The Guardian reports citing footage obtained by Sky News.
Sky News says that it has been shown "the strongest evidence yet" that the British-accented masked militant in the latest IS propaganda video is British terror suspect Siddhartha Dhar a.k.a. Abu Rumaysah.
Sky says that voice analysis of the video has revealed "distinctive features" that support claims the militant is Dhar.
Dr Frederika Holmes, who has more than 25 years' experience as an independent consultant in forensic and phonetic analysis of speech and language samples, said: "There was considerable overlap in accent features across the two samples, and both samples could be plausibly within the range of a single speaker."
Syrian government and rebel fire has killed around 20 civilians and wounded dozens more in Damascus and the nearby rebel-held East Ghouta region, state news agency SANA and an activist group report.
SANA is reporting that eight people were killed and 25 injured in mortar attacks by the Jaish al-Islam faction who fired on residential neighborhoods in Damascus from East Ghouta.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says that the attack on Damascus followed government shelling on Douma in East Ghouta in which five civilians were killed. Seven more were reported dead in air strikes on two other East Ghouta towns.
As the International Committee of the Red Cross warn of dire conditions in Syrian towns near Damascus besieged by pro-government forces, Syria Direct have spoken to civilians living in the rebel-controlled town of Azaz in northern Syria, who are trying to cope amid freezing temperatures, snow and rain in a town where diesel and electricity prices are skyrocketing.
Abu Hussein and his family live in a cement house, and as such, are better off than many of the 57,000 residents of Azaz.
"There are people living in tents--how can they take care of themselves?" asks Abu Hussein.
"In this despicable situation, no one knows what to do," Abu Hussein said.
"I swear to God, I never imagined in my life that people would die from the cold."