In Iraq, Turkish troops on a training mission have repelled an attack by IS militants, Turkish officials say.
At least 17 IS militants were killed in fighting on January 7 at the Bashiqa military base in Iraq's Nineveh province, where around 150 Turkish troops have been deployed to train local Iraqi forces.
An IS militant executed his mother in public in the Syrian city of Raqqa because she had encouraged him to leave the group, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has reported.
The woman was in her 40s and had told her son, 20, that the U.S.-led coalition against IS would wipe out the militant group. The woman had asked her son to leave Raqqa, IS's Syrian stronghold with her.
However, the woman's son informed IS of her comments and on January 6, son executed her in front of hundreds of people.
The UN's Libya envoy Martin Kobler tweets that he regrets not being among the thousands who have attended the funerals for the terror attack in Zliten.
AFP reports that IS has claimed responsibility for yesterday's suicide car bombing at a checkpoint in Ras Lanuf in Libya's oil crescent.
The report notes that EU foreign affairs chief Federica Mogherini is set to hold talks today in Tunis with Libyan politicians including Fayez al-Sarraj, named in the UN-brokered national unity deal as prime minister designate.
There appears to be some confusion over which attack in Libya IS has claimed responsibility for.
The Washington Post is reporting that IS has claimed responsibility for the attack in Zliten that targeted a police base.
However, the statement published on Twitter by IS sympathizers says the attack was carried out "near Ras Lanuf," by Abu al-Abbas al-Muhajir, indicating that IS is referring to the attack at Ras Lanuf and not at Zliten, which is some 500 km away. The statement does say that the attacker targeted a "apostate soldiers."
The Brussels apartment where police found traces of explosives, handmade belts and a fingerprint belonging to Paris attacks fugitive Saleh Abdeslam may be where Abdeslam -- still on the run -- hid out after the November 13 attacks, the BBC is reporting.
IS claimed responsibility for the attacks, which killed 130 people.
The Independent has published quotes from a statement this morning by the Belgian federal prosecutor that give more details about the items found in a police raid on a Brussels apartment in connection with the November 13 Paris attacks.
The statement confirms that the "key Paris attacks fugitive" whose fingerprint was found in the apartment is Saleh Abdeslam, who is still on the run.
“Material that can be used to fabricate explosives as well as traces of TATP (acetone peroxide) were found,” a statement from the Belgian federal prosecutor said.
“This apartment was rented under a false identity that might have been used by a person already in custody in this case.
“Three handmade belts that might be used to transport explosives as well as a fingerprint of Salah Abdeslam were also discovered.”
Reuters has more on the breaking news that Belgian prosecutors have found suicide belts and a fingerprint of a Paris attacks fugitive in a Brussels apartment.
These are not new finds but relate to a police raid on December 10.
Reuters reports that Belgian federal prosecutors have confirmed a report in a Belgian newspaper that said police had found traces of explosives, handmade belts and the fingerprint of a "key Paris attacks fugitive" during a December 10 raid on an apartment in the Schaerbeek area of Brussels.
Reuters does not name the fugitive but other reports say the individual in question is Saleh Abdeslam.
The apartment had been rented in a false name that might be linked to a person in custody in connection with the Paris attacks.
AFP has breaking news relating to the ongoing investigations into the November 13 attacks in Paris.
A fingerprint belonging to a fugitive wanted in connection with the attack has been found in a apartment in Brussels in Belgium.
Suicide vests and explosives traces have also been found in a Brussels apartment, though it is not clear yet whether this is the same apartment where the fingerprint was found.
This is the announcement by the IS group this morning claiming responsibility for the Ras Lanuf suicide bombing. The bomber is named as Abu al-Abbas al-Muhajir ("the foreign fighter"), indicating that the perpetrator was not Libyan.