British Mom Fled Syria On Foot Clutching Her Toddler Son
A British mother accused of taking her toddler to Syria to join the IS group has told a court how she fled the country on foot, holding her son.
Tareena Shakil said that she escaped to Turkey after catching a bus and bribing a taxi driver before running for the border.
Shakil denies joining IS and says she went to Syria to live under Sharia law.
IS Claims Responsibility For Cairo Attack That Killed Nine
The IS militant group has claimed responsibility for a bomb attack that killed nine people in Cairo.
In a statement on social media, it said its fighters carried out the operation that killed six policemen and three others during a raid on a booby-trapped home on January 21 near the site of Egypt's pyramids.
Turkey Alarmed By Reports Of Russian Military Build-Up On Syrian Border
AFP has more on the reports that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has expressed alarm at reports that Russia is building up forces in northern Syria near the Turkish border.
"We have said this from the beginning: we won't tolerate such formations (in northern Syria) along the area stretching from the Iraqi border up to the Mediterranean," Erdogan told reporters after Friday prayers in Istanbul.
More photos of the fires today in oil storage tanks in Libya's Ras Lanuf oil terminal, which was attacked by the IS group yesterday.
The U.S.-led coalition against the IS group says that its targeting of IS's financial infrastructure is having an effect on the group's ability to sustain themselves.
U.S.-Led Coalition Announces Results Of Assessments Of Civilian Casualties
The U.S.-led coalition fighting the IS group in Iraq and Syria has tweeted this response to a closed assessment of civilian casualties caused by its air strikes:
The president of Libya's internationally recognized House of Representatives, Aguila Saleh, has condemned yesterday's attack by the IS group on Libya's oil facilities at Ras Lanuf and called on the army to support the Petroleum Facilities Guard, the militia tasked with protecting Libya's oil installations.