The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for a suicide attack targeting the Pakistani consulate in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad.
The attack was followed by a deadly gun battle that lasted several hours, Reuters report.
Afghan officials said all three attackers and at least seven members of the security forces died during the attack by the radical Islamist movement which has so far avoided striking high-profile Pakistani targets.
The SITE Intelligence group tweeted this about IS's claims of responsibility for a suicide attack against the Pakistani consulate in Jalalabad.
France has banned three "radical" Islamic associations which ran a mosque in a Paris area that has been closed down following November's attacks, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve has said.
AFP reports that the mosque at Lagny-sur-Marne was closed early last month amid a security crackdown in the wake of the November 13 attacks by the IS group that killed 130 people.
"There is no place in the French Republic for groups which incite, and which call for terrorism or call for hate," Cazeneuve said.
Libya's Al-Wasat news is reporting that a sniper has killed a senior IS militant in IS's Libyan stronghold of Sirte.
Two men have been indicted on charges of complicity in terrorism for the attack on the Radisson Blu hotel in Mali's capital Bamako in November that killed 20 people.
Prosecutor Boubacar Sidiki Samake said that the men were arrested on November 26 and indicted on December 16. The men had been identified on surveillance video.
Two gunmen stormed the hotel on November and shot at guests. The gunmen were killed at the scene.
Today's Zaman reports on the aftermath of yesterday's suicide bombing in Istanbul's Sultanahmet district: local hotels, hoping for a better year, have experienced a wave of booking cancelations.
The United States and its allies staged two dozen strikes against the IS group in Iraq and Syria on January 12, the military coalition leading the operations said in a statement.
Three British men have gone on trial at London's Old Bailey charged with helping a British teenager travel to Syria to fight with the IS group, the BBC reports.
Aseel Muthana, 19, joined IS in Syria in February 2014. Muthana's brother, Nasser Muthana, was already in Syria and appeared in an IS propaganda video, "There Is No Life Without Jihad."
Kristen Brekke, 20, Forhad Rahman, and Adeel Ulhaq, deny allegations that they helped Muthana.
Turkey has arrested 69 people with alleged ties to the IS group in the wake of yesterday's suicide bombing in an Istanbul tourist area that killed 10 foreign citizens, Hurriyet is reporting.
Three Russian nationals are among those arrested.
Former Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin has said that Russia's military operation in Syria is "not as expensive as it might seem."
"All of the measures connected with Crimea, with eastern Ukraine, where there was humanitarian support, were much more expensive than the situation in Syria. I don't think that Syria will go on for many years. In the medium term, Syria will not be a big burden," Kudrin was quoted as saying by RIA Novosti.