The ICRC Twitter account says that its teams are headed with aid to three towns in Syria: Madaya, Foua and Kefraya.
Madaya is a rebel-controlled town near Damascus and is under a government siege since July where opposition activists say people are starving.
Foua and Kefraya are two Shi'ite villages further north, which have been under a siege by rebel forces -- including Al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate the Al-Nusra Front -- for even longer. Reports say residents there have resorted to eating grass.
The Financial Times this morning writes that Libya has reached its most critical juncture since the fall of Muammar Qaddafi.
Noting last week's attacks by the IS group on Libya's oil export terminals of Sidra and Ras Lanuf and the deadly IS truck bombing in Zliten, the FT says that IS's further expansion would threaten Libya's future oil production capacity.
Further expansion of Isis in Libya would increase the risk of long-term impairment to Libya’s production and export capacity through infrastructure damage. In this scenario, the integrity and independence of key institutions such as the National Oil Company could be put at risk as the rival governments continue to fight over Libya’s diminishing wealth, leading to further disruptions to oil production.
LIbyan news websites are also reporting this morning the unconfirmed reports from residents of Sirte that unidentified planes bombed IS positions in the Sirte area.
One Libyan Twitter account posted an image claiming to show one of the strikes. The image has not been verified.
From our news desk:
Humanitarian Aid To Enter Besieged Syrian Towns
Humanitarian aid will enter the besieged Syrian town of Madaya, where aid groups say residents are starving to death.
Emergency food supplies had been due to be sent to the rebel-held town on January 10 but the operation was delayed.
The International Committee of the Red Cross in Syria said aid would arrive in Madaya and two northern towns besieged by rebels, Foua and Kefraya, on January 11.
There are about 40,000 people in Madaya, near Lebanon's border, with residents said to be eating pets and grass to survive.
The medical charity Doctor Without Borders (MSF) warned that Madaya needed a constant supply of aid, not just a single delivery.
MSF warned on January 10 that residents were suffering from continuing starvation and shortages of medical supplies.
The first images have emerged of Paris attacks fugitive Saleh Abdeslam fleeing to Belgium in the immediate aftermath of the November 13 attacks, French TV news channel BFMTV, which published the images this morning, is reporting.
The images were taken by a CCTV camera in a gas station on the Belgian border on the morning of November 14 and show Abdeslam with Mohammed Amri, one of the two accomplices who took him from Paris to Brussels.
Abdeslam and his accomplices Hamza Attou and Mohammed Amri stopped at the gas station during the journey, where they refueled their Golf car before traveling on. Le Figaro notes that the men did not bother to cover their faces.
The trio spent 12 minutes in the gas station where Abdeslam, knowing that he was not (yet) a wanted man, appeared relaxed, and strolled around with his hands in his pockets, BFMTV reports.
As the first images of Paris attacks fugitive Saleh Abdeslam during his flight from Paris to Brussels on November 14 emerge, AFP reports this morning on the financial impact of the November 13 attacks.
Franco-Dutch airline group Air France-KLM said Monday that the November 13 terror attacks in Paris reduced its December turnover by an estimated 70 million euros ($76.42 million).
But the effect had largely tailed off over the past two weeks, it added.
In Syria, the BBC has tweeted this short video of Syrian Arab Red Crescent trucks with food aid this morning for civilians in the besieged town of Madaya.
The Danish government is trying to build the political support needed to send as many as 50 special operations forces into Syria and Iraq, Denmark's Politiken is reporting this morning.
The government is seeking to send up to 50 specially-trained troops on missions into both Syria and Iraq, in response to a request last month by the United States that Denmark increase its efforts in the fight against the IS group.
Al-Qaeda's Yemeni branch and North African wing has warned Saudi Arabia it will pay for the executions of dozens of its members, Reuters reports.
Saudi Arabia killed 47 people including a Shi'ite cleric but mostly Al-Qaeda militants in a mass execution on January 2.
"But they (Riyadh) insisted on offering the blood of the good Mujahideen as a sacrifice for the Crusaders on their holiday, in the New Year," the two groups said in a statement posted on social media on January 10.
"Let them wait for the day when God will heal the chests of the families of the martyrs, their brothers and those who love them from the arrogant infidel."
At least eight children have been killed along with their teacher in a Russian air strike on a school in the town of Anjara in Aleppo province in Syria, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has said.
SOHR also reported that three children have been killed by rebel rocket fire on a government-held district in Aleppo city.