Reuters has more on the emerging reports that IS militants are attacking Libya's oil port of Sidra for the second day.
IS militants resumed shelling near Sidra and an oil storage tank in the port was hit, causing it to set on fire, according to Reuters, who are citing a Petroleum Facilities Guard spokesman and the National Oil Corporation.
The guards spokesman said the militants were 30-40 km (19-25 miles) from the port, which they also targeted on Monday in an attack that left seven guards dead and 25 wounded.
There is a "huge fire" in an oil storage tank in Libya's Sidra port as IS militants resume shelling, the National Oil Corp. says.
Saudi Arabia and Iran owe it to the international community to put aside their differences in the Middle East and focus on opposing the IS group, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier told newspaper Bild, Reuters reports.
Libyan activist Ahmed El-Gasir has tweeted this map showing the locations of the clashes between IS militants and the Petroleum Facilities Guard (PFG) near the oil terminal of Sidra.
Reuters has a few more details on Siddhartha Dhar, the London man believed to be the masked IS militant who appeared in a recent IS video showing the killing of five men.
Dhar, who is also known as Abu Rumaysah, is one of Britain's most high-profile Islamists and an associate of Anjem Choudary, Britain's best-known Islamist preacher who is due to go on trial next week accused of terrorism offenses.
A convert from Hinduism who lived in east London, Dhar regularly attended protests staged by the now banned organization al-Muhajiroun and had often spoken to the media in support of radical Islamic causes.
U.S. Army Col. Steve Warren, the spokesman for the U.S.-led military operation against IS, is tweeting updates from a press conference.
Warren says that IS's raids near Haditha in Iraq's Anbar province have not been successful because the Iraqi Security Forces are stronger and because of air strikes from U.S.-led coalition.
U.S. Army Col. Steve Warren, the spokesman for the U.S.-led military operation against IS, says that the U.S.-led coalition and Iraqi Security Forces have retaken 40 percent of territory from the IS group in Iraq.
The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has found indications that some Syrians have been exposed to sarin or a similar nerve agent, the BBC reports.
An OPCW report said it was investigating 11 chemical-weapon attacks alleged by Syria's government but did not say when or where the attacks happened or who was responsible.