IS has posted a biography of Abu al-Mughirah al-Qahtani, the late leader of the IS group in Libya.
The biography said that Qahtani joined the "jihadi caravan" -- i.e. began to wage jihad -- in 2003.
Qahtani is also said in the biography to have been in Abu Ghraib, the notorious prison outside Baghdad in Iraq.
Abas Aslani of Iran's Tasnim News Agency tweets that Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian has talked on the phone with his Russian counterpart, Mikhail Bogdanov, regarding how to implement recent agreements on the Syrian conflict.
A video of the fires at the Sidra oil terminal following clashes with IS on January 5.
Reuters have tweeted this image of oil storage tanks on fire at Sidra following IS attacks on January 4 and 5.
Fires caused by clashes between IS militants and guards near Libya's biggest oil ports have spread to four oil storage tanks that were still burning today, Petroleum Facilities Guards spokesman Ali al-Hassi has said, Reuters is reporting.
There are three fires at Sidra and one at nearby Ras Lanuf which fire fighters are trying to control.
Hassi said that while the PFG are in control of Sidra and Ras Lanuf, skirmishes are continuing.
At least nine guards have been killed and more than 40 injured, while the PFG have recovered the bodies of 30 IS militants, according to Hassi.
IS has not launched a new attack (at least not yet) on Sidra in Libya today but this rather nice map tweeted earlier today by AFP shows Libya's oil facilities and where IS has attacked on January 4 and 5.
The IS group's local radio in its Libyan stronghold of Sirte is calling in militants to seize oil from unbelievers and playing jihadi "nasheeds" -- Arabic chants, Libyan analust Mohamed Eljarh says.
These updates come after a spokesman for Libya's Petroleum Facilities Guard said this morning that IS is trying to regroup some kilometers from Sidra.
Libya's Alwasat is also reporting that a 15-year-old boy from Tripoli was one of the suicide bombers used by the IS group to attack the oil port of Sidra on January 4.
Ageila Saleh, who represents Libya's internationally recognized government, has condemned the attacks by the IS group on Libya's oil terminal of Sidra.
The latest IS propaganda video in which London-born militant Siddhartha Dhar is thought to appear has turned attention to a banned Islamist group -- al-Muhajiroun -- to which Dhar formerly belonged.
Reuters has given a profile of al-Muhajiroun, which was banned in the UK in 2010 under anti-terrorist legislation.
The group was founded by Syrian-born Islamist cleric Omar Bakri in the late 1990s and called for Sharia law in Britain.
Its leaders have maintained that they do not support violence, acting under a "covenant of security" that requires Muslims in non-Muslim countries to submit to the authorities.
The group gained media notoriety in Britain after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States for issuing leaflets that referred to the hijackers as "the Magnificent 19".
It held regular meetings in community centers in east London and would often stage demonstrations outside the prime minister's office in Downing Street calling for all governments to operate under a strict form of Islamic law.