The Bataclan concert hall in Paris, where terrorists killed 90 people on November 13, could reopen by the end of the year, two of its owners have told French newspaper Le Monde.
A total of 130 people were killed in a series of coordinated attacks in Paris on November 13. The IS group later claimed responsibility.
Co-owners Jules Frutos and Olivier Poubelle own 30 percent of the venue. Two of their colleagues -- Nathalie Jardin and Thomas Duperron -- were among those killed in the terrorist attack.
Frutos said that the venue should reopen.
"It should not become a mausoleum. Or a site of pilgrimage," he said. AFP has translated more of the interview into English here.
Reuters has tweeted this response from Turkey's President Erdogan to today's claims by Moscow that it has proof that he is involved in buying oil from the IS group.
This just in from AFP: Turkey's Erdogan slams Russia over today's IS oil allegations.
Russia's TASS news agency has details from the Defense Ministry regarding its claims of proof that IS oil is being transported to and via Turkey.
The Defense Ministry has detailed three routes it says that IS uses to transport its oil, which it is calling the "Western route," the "Northern route" and the "Eastern route."
According to the Ministry, the "Western route" "goes to Turkish ports on the Mediterranean coast. Along this route, hydrocarbons produced around Raqqa are transported by road, especially at night, in northwestern Syria. Then through border towns Azaz (Syria) and Reyhanli (Turkey) to the Turkish ports of Dörtyol and İskenderun."
The Ministry has included a photograph, published by TASS, which it says was taken on November 13 near the Syrian border town of Azaz on the road connecting Turkey and Syria and on which it says that a "cluster of vehicles carrying oil products can be clearly seen."
The "Northern route" goes to the Batman oil refinery in Turkey, according to the Ministry, from oil fields on the right bank of the Euphrates river.
"One of the major centers of oil production and refining under IS control is the population center of Deir Ezzor. Here there are a large quantity of oil refining factories...In this region there is a permanent cluster of oil tankers waiting to load."
The Ministry provided satellite photographs that it claims were taken of the area around Deir Ezzor in October and which show a large number of tankers parked off road.
The "Eastern route," according to the Ministry, is used to transport oil to a transshipment base in Cizre in Turkey and allegedly runs from oil fields in northeastern Syria and northwestern areas of Iraq through Zakho (a town a few kilometers from the Iraq-Turkey border).
Turkey may cut imports of Russian liquid petroleum gas amid soaring tensions following last week's downing of a Russian plane near the Syrian border.
British Prime Minister David Cameron has urged people to use the Arabic acronym for the IS group, Daesh, instead of the English acronyms ISIL, ISIS or IS.
Daesh is the Arabic equivalent of ISIS or ISIL, the Islamic State of Iraq in al-Sham or the Levant, an older name for IS before it declared its "caliphate" last year.
Russia has also begun to use the Russian equivalent of Daesh, ДАИШ, rather than IS.
Not everyone believes that referring to IS as Daesh will make any difference to the group, however.
And analyst Michael Horowitz joked about Cameron's call to refer to IS by their Arabic acronym:
Moscow is not currently considering a complete cessation of air links with Turkey, Transport Minister Maksim Sokolov has said.
Al-Qaeda militants have taken over two towns in southern Yemen today, residents and local fighters have said, Reuters is reporting.
The militants, from the local Al-Qaeda affiliate Ansar al-Sharia, took over the Abyan province capital Zinjibar and neighboring town of Jaar in an early morning surprise attack. At least seven local militiamen were killed as well as five militants.
Turkey May Cut Russian LPG Imports By 25 Percent
Reuters has more on its exclusive about Turkey's possible plans to cut imports of liquified petroleum gas (LPG) from Russia by 25 percent next year.
Two sources told Reuters that the move was prompted by a chill in ties between Russia and Turkey following the downing of a Russian war plane near the Syrian border last week.
U.S. military spokesman Steve Warren says that the United States has assessed that Russia's S-400 anti-aircraft system is now operational in Syria's Latakia province.