BBC defense correspondent Jonathan Beale tweets that the United States is carrying out the bulk of the air strikes in Iraq and almost all of the strikes in Syria against IS.
Beale says that 78 percent of the 8,783 air strikes carried out by the coalition against IS in Iraq and Syria are by U.S. planes.
A new twist in the reports from this morning that a masked assailant had attacked a French teacher while invoking the IS group.
The teacher made up the story,the Paris prosecutor's office said.
The attack sparked a manhunt in the northern Paris suburb of Aubervilliers.
The BBC's Dominic Casciani tweets more information about Nadir Syed, the London man convicted of preparing an IS-style knife attack in London.
He says Syed had tried and failed to get to Syria before planning the attack at home in the UK.
A British man has been convicted of preparing to carry out an IS-inspired knife attack on the streets of London, the BBC reports.
Nadir Syed, 22, from London was arrested in November 2014 hours after buying a chef's knife.
Salem Mohammed, a Ninevah MP, has said that some Turkish troops have withdrawn from Bashiqa in northern Iraq to Dohuk in Iraqi Kurdistan.
Mohammed said that a small number of Turkish troops remained in the camp.
Mujahid a-Sharqi, a Syrian citizen journalist in the IS-controlled city of Deir al-Zor tells Syria Direct why he is prepared to risk his life to expose the realities of the IS group.
I don’t think IS has or will succeed in silencing us. All the journalists in IS territory know that their fate will be death if IS captures them. At the same time, we have a strong conviction that we must expose the group’s crimes.
Exposing what is happening in Deir e-Zor is worth me sacrificing my life because IS is committing its crimes against my friends and family in Deir e-Zor.
Russia is not only defending its national interests in Syria but is also defending the interests of the whole world and of civilization, Russian presidential aide for military-technical cooperation Vladimir Kozhin has said, according to RIA Novosti.
"Today we live in the reality of a large, uncontrolled chaos in the Middle East, the consequence of a series of 'color revolutions' of all shades and hues," Kozhin said.
"There is a real long term war in Syria and Russia is defending, in essence, first and foremost, not just its own national interests but world interests, the interests of civilization."
Russia's Foreign Ministry has directed more criticism over the United States' actions and policy on Syria ahead of a visit to Moscow by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry tomorrow.
The Foreign Ministry says that Russia and the United States signed a memorandum on air safety over Syria but Washington has not ensured the compliance of its coalition ally,Turkey.
Russia and the United States signed the memorandum on October 20. It establishes measures to ensure that their pilots steer clear of each other to avoid risks of mid-air incidents as they conduct separate bombing campaigns in Syria.
Russia is not supplying the Free Syrian Army with weapons, Vladimir Putin's aide on military-technical cooperation Vladimir Kozhin has said.
Paris Attacks Ringleader Directed Terrorists In Real Time By Phone: Expert
Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the ringleader of the November 13 Paris attacks, appears to have directed the three terrorists inside the Bataclan theater in real time by phone from a few blocks away, according to French terrorism expert Jean-Charles Brisard.
At least one witness confirmed Abaaoud's presence near the Bataclan theater in Paris at the time of the attacks, Brisard reveals in the latest edition of CTC Sentinel published today.
The witness told investigators that he had been parked in a car on a dark street three short blocks from the Bataclan.
He testified that he saw Abaaoud huddled in the doorway of a residential building and shouting into a phone.
The witness left and came back to the car several times and each time Abaaoud was still there yelling into his phone. After the assault, the witness returned a final time and came across Abaaoud in full light at the end of the street and was struck by his unusual face with a long nose. The witness later remarked that Abaaoud’s head was shaved and that he was wearing layers of unusually large, loose clothing. Having seen his face, the witness immediately recognized Abaaoud days later when pictures of the terrorist emerged in the press. The presence of Abaaoud in the immediate vicinity of the attacks provides an indication of his degree of implication in the supervision and control of the plot and suggests he was giving direct orders and instructions to his team inside the Bataclan during the shootout.
Additional phone data indicates that Abaaoud had communicated with Bilal Hadfi, one of the three suicide bombers at the Stade de France, in the minutes before the attack up to the time that the first bomber blew himself up, according to Brisard.