This from CNN about the deadly shooting in at a social service center in the city of San Bernadino in California where officials say a husband and wife shot dead 14 people and wounded 21 on Wednesday.
A spokeswoman for Russia's Embassy in Thailand has told the BBC's Russian service that diplomats have not received any information about planned attacks on Russian citizens vacationing in the country.
"We have not received any official notification. Russian citizens should not have any concerns," Embassy spokeswoman Olga Zhilina told the BBC.
Thai police say they were warned by Moscow that ten Syrians working for IS had entered Thailand to target Russians.
The BBC Russian service says it has asked Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) for comment on these reports but have not received any response.
Zhilina said the Embassy had no reason to consider the reports as a credible threat.
"We don't understand how to consider this. This information appeared in the media. It hasn't come to us via any channel," Zhilina told BBC Russian.
Here's a video from RFE/RL's Current Time TV:
Russian Defense Ministry officials claimed this week that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his family are involved in the illegal oil trade with Islamic State militants. The accusations came as tensions reached new highs after Turkey brought down a Russian warplane near the Syrian border on November 24. RFE/RL asked Turks in Istanbul what they think of the Russian statements.
France Issues Guide To Surviving A Terror Attack
France's government has issued a guide on how survive a terror attack, Reuters reports.
The guide follows the November 13 terrorist attacks in Paris, claimed by IS, in which 130 people were killed.
The guide is in cartoon-strip form and will appear on posters in public places and will also be available online.
It recommends three main responses to a terror attack: run away, hide and raise the alarm.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov has discussed "issues of a coordinated response to the terrorist threat represented by the IS group" with Simon Gass, the Political Director of the UK's Foreign and Commonwealth Office, RIA Novosti reports.
The BBC has published a report with interviews with Syrian Turkomans -- ethnic Turks living in Turkey -- whose homeland in the Turkmen mountains has come under attack from Russian air strikes. Many have fled to Turkey.
Twenty-five year old Surayya and her family finally left their village and fled to Hatay in the last week of November, the BBC reports.
Until recently their home in the Turkmen mountains had been a little-known corner of a wider war.
But then Russian warplanes began bombing their village.
"We couldn't even fire up our ovens," she recalls. "At night we had to make sure all the lights were switched off because as soon as they see a light they bomb it."
Turkey has offered support to Turkoman armed brigades in the area, while some say they are helped by Al-Qaeda's affiliate in Syria, the Al-Nusra Front.
Calls To Rename Moscow Street Where Turkish Embassy Located After Su-24 Pilot
Russia's League of Assistance for Defense Enterprises (LADE) has called on the mayor of Moscow to rename the street where the Turkish Embassy is located in honor of Oleg Peshkov, the pilot killed in the November 24 downing of a Russian warplane near the Syrian border.
"Members of LADE suggest renaming the 7th Rostovsky Pereulok, where the Embassy of Turkey is located in Moscow, and also suggest the idea of erecting a bust or a statue of the killed Russian military pilot, made using LADE funds," reads an open letter published this morning on LADE's website.
Peshkov was buried this week in Lipetsk.
LADE is "an all-Russian public organization founded in 1992 at the initiative of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation to establish and strengthen links between industry and the military agency, protect the interests of enterprises of the military-industrial complex," according to TASS.
France Carries Out Surveillance Flights Over IS-Controlled Libya
French military aircraft have carried out reconnaisance and intelligence flights over areas of Libya controlled by the IS group and plan to carry out additional missions, a presidential press document has shown, Reuters reports.
Two missions were carried out on November 20 and 21 around the towns of Sirte and Tobruk. Sirte is controlled by IS.
Russian economic sanctions will not bring Turkey to its knees, Turkey's Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has said, RFE/RL's Radio Svoboda reports.
Davutoglu once again defended Turkey's actions in downing a Russian warplane near the Syrian border on November 24, saying the Su-24 jet had violated Turkish airspace and that Turkey would not apologize for defending its borders.
The Turkish prime minister also said that "for moral reasons" Turkey could not allow planes that were bombing areas where Turkomans lived in Syria to fly in its airspace.
Davotuglu made his comments from Azerbaijan's capital, Baku, where he is on a visit.