Libya's Channel is reporting that one of its sources has also said that a storage tank is on fire at the Sidra oil port.
The storage tank on fire reportedly belongs to the Harouge Oil Company and is a crude storage tank.
Britain's Daily Telegraph reports that British investigators are trying to establish whether a child who appeared in a grisly new IS killing video is the son of Grace Dare, a British woman with links to the killers of Lee Rigby, a British soldier killed by two Islamist militants in 2013.
Dare went to Syria in 2012 and married a Swedish IS militant, now thought killed. Dare said she wanted to be the first British woman to kill an IS hostage.
An Iraqi official has blamed the IS group for the bombing of two Sunni mosques in the predominantly Shi'ite city of Hilla in southern Iraq late on January 3, saying the militant group seeks to stoke sectarian tensions, AP reports.
Provincial security official Falah al-Khafaji told AP he doesn't believe the bombings were linked to an escalating spat between Saudi Arabia and Iran,
Al-Khafaji said that IS "did this to inflame sectarian strife in the country, starting in Hilla."
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi blamed the attacks on "[IS] and those who are similar to them."
Il Foglio's Daniele Raineri also notes that IS in Libya has named its successful assault on the town of Bin Jawad after Abu Mughira al-Qahtani, IS's leader in Libya, and added an Arabic phrase meaning "may Allah accept him."
This suggests that al-Qahtani is dead, Raineri says -- noting that IS's glossy magazine, Dabiq, ran an interview with al-Qahtani in September.
Raineri also suggests that al-Qahtani could have been Abu Nabil al-Anbari, who was killed in a U.S. air strike in Libya on November 13.
A group of militants in the Philippines has pledged allegiance to IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in a video, the SITE Intel Group says.
An update on the reports that have been emerging saying that families in Ras Lanuf in Libya have begun to leave the town amid an ongoing attack by the IS group.
The Red Crescent in Ajdabiya has now reportedly said that families have started leaving Ras Lanuf.
Libyan freelance journalist Suliman Ali Zway says that IS's attack on Libya's oil terminals is an attempt to gain control, rather than just an ordinary assault.
Libyan social media accounts are tweeting photos claiming to show Sidra, which has been targeted by IS militants today.
Libya's Al Wasat News is reporting that two guards were killed this morning in IS suicide car bombings at the Sidra oil terminal.
Al Wasat is quoting residents from Ras Lanuf some 20 kilometers away who said that they heard two very loud explosions.