The Turkey-Syria border must be closed immediately, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said.
Lavrov hinted at Russia's ongoing accusations that Turkey is assisting the IS group by providing it with a transit point for weapons, recruits and oil. Turkey has denied the allegations, calling them "slanderous."
"The international community cannot turn a blind eye to the fact that somene is playing the role of IS's accomplice, and providing the terrorists with... weapons, transit services, and having commercial transactions with them. We insist that all this must be stopped," Lavrov was quoted as saying by the pro-Kremlin RIA Novosti.
More developments in the spat between Turkey and Iraq over Turkish troop deployment in northern Iraq.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi has asked his Foreign Ministry to lodge a formal complaint with the UN Security Council regarding Turkey's troop deployments in northern Iraq, Reuters report.
Abadi said in a statement on his website that he has asked that the Security Council order Turkey to withdraw its troops immediately.
Today's Zaman has more on this afternoon's comments from Turkish President Erdogan regarding Turkish troop deployment to northern Iraq.
Erdogan said that Turkey will not withdraw its troops from a camp close to the IS-controlled city of Mosul.
The Turkish president said the deployed troops are not combat soldiers but have been deployed to protect soldiers who are training Iraqi and Kurdish forces.
Turkey's Daily Sabah tweets these comments from Turkish President Erdogan regarding the spat with Baghdad over Turkish troop deployment to northern Iraq.
RFE/RL's Golnaz Esfandiari tweets a report that at least 11 Iranians have been killed fighting in Syria in recent days.
Iranian fighters have been fighting alongside Syrian government troops in Syria.
The number of Iranian fighters dying in Syria has reportedly increased in recent weeks.
Conditions are taking shape for cooperation between Russia and the U.S.-led coalition against IS in Syria, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said, according to RIA Novosti.
"I think that right now the conditions are coming together for genuine cooperation with the coalition, which will be based on collective work, including to identify goals," Lavrov told a news conference following talks in Rome today with his Italian counterpart Paolo Gentiloni.
Some of the weapons used in the November 13 Paris attacks were manufactured in Serbia's arms factory, including one that was legally exported to the United States in 2013, a company official told AFP.
Serbia's Interior Ministry was asked by French police and Interpol to check the serial numbers of seven items of weaponry believed to have been manufactured in Serbia.
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'Russian-Speaking' Woman Carries Out Suicide Attack In Afghanistan
A suicide bombing in Afghanistan's eastern Nangarhar Province has killed five people.
Nangarhar governor's office spokesman Attaullah Khogyani said the incident occurred shortly after security forces arrested nine Russian-speaking foreigners, including a woman and three children late on December 10.
Khogyani said the group was transferred to a security forces office when the woman who had been arrested detonated explosives strapped to her body.
The three children and one Afghan intelligence officer were killed in the blast.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.
An investigation is under way on the remaining members of the group that was detained.
The Kurdish YPG says that at least 50 people have been killed and 80 more wounded in a triple truck bombing by IS militants in the town of Tel Tamer in Syria's northeastern Hasakah province.
The YPG control Hasakah and are fighting IS militants.