This just tweeted by Putin's official Twitter account regarding his comments earlier about how long Russia could continue its operation in Syria.
"We can continue the operation in Syria for a long time -- it is financed through the redistribution of budget for exercises of the Russian armed forces," the tweet quotes Putin as saying.
IS militants have overrun new areas in Afghanistan's eastern Nangarhar province, which caused many people flee these areas, but still there is no sign of military action against the extremist group, RFE/RL's Afghan service is reporting.
The Afghan service also reports that an IS radio station called Radio Khelafat has begun broadcasting. Aghan officials say that this FM station is broadcasting from an area on the other side of the border.
Maria Zakharova, Russia's Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, has commented on Facebook about Putin's remarks this morning about Russia's military base in Syria.
Zakharova seems to think that the Americans will have difficulty in translating a Russian phrase that Putin used -- "это бабушка надвое сказала," which translates literally as "granny said ambiguously" but which means "it's anyone's guess" or "we'll just have to wait and see."
"It's interesting how the Pentagon are right now translating and analyzing Putin's words about whether a military base in Syria is needed or not -- that's anyone's guess," Zakharova wrote.
"I feel sorry for those guys, [I hope] it won't overpower them. Well, only if they start looking for a grandmother!"
RIA Novosti is reporting that according to a Russian Foreign Ministry source, Jordan has sent Moscow a list of 160 organizations to be considered for inclusion in a list of terror groups during a meeting of world powers in New York about Syria tomorrow.
Russia said last month that participants in talks in Vienna on Syria had agreed that Jordan would coordinate efforts to compile a common list of terrorist groups in Syria.
Turkey's Daily Sabah has tweeted a video of an attack by IS militants on the Bashiqa camp in northern Iraq yesterday where Turkish forces are stationed. Four Turkish soldiers were injured in the attack.
More than a month after the slaying of two Syrian activists in the Turkish city of Sanliurfa, the media collective that the two men -- Ibrahim Abdelqader and his friend Fares Hamadi belonged to -- which secretly documents life in the IS stronghold of Raqqa -- has been forced into deep hiding, AP reports.
IS claimed responsibility for the murders of the two activists from the Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently group in a video message.
The group won the 2015 Committee to Protect Journalists' International Press Freedom Award last month.
But their members are at risk -- even those in Turkey.
The remaining members of Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently -- roughly 30 people, mostly based in Syria -- are taking extraordinary precautions. Those in Turkey have changed residences and avoid encounters with contacts that have not been thoroughly vetted.
Most lack passports or the documents needed to get out of the country.
[The Committee to Protect Journalists] says it has been working to help activists and family members relocate, but Abdelqader says more can be done.
"We are being killed. We are being threatened on a daily basis by IS," he said. "What is strange to us is that no one has showed any concern -- not even the organizations that protect journalists. No state has offered us protection or offered to help protect my family. No one has given us a helping hand."
Putin has commented on the new counter-terrorism coalition announced by Saudi Arabia earlier this week.
Putin said that he did not think that the coalition would have an "anti-Russian character."
"For the war on terror, we have to unite all our forces, the alliance created by Saudi Arabia must act in the common interest," Putin said of the coalition against terrorism announced by Riyadh this week.
Putin says that "Moscow and Riyadh have different approaches to settling the Syrian conflict in a number of areas but there are overlaps."