Libyan social media accounts have started to circulate a statement, purportedly by the IS group in Libya, claiming responsibility for yesterday's truck suicide bombing in Zliten.
Two Britons were jailed today after being arrested in Hungary where they were suspected of heading to Syria, in breach of strict travel constraints because they had convictions for terrorism offenses, Reuters reports.
The two -- Trevor Brooks, 40, and Simon Keeer, 44 -- were "well-known Islamists," according to Reuters. They were extradited back to Britain and sentenced to two years in prison today.
A British mother has been sentenced to five years and four months in prison for trying to take her two children to Syria.
The woman, who cannot be named, left home saying that she was taking her children to a birthday party. She was stopped by authorities in Turkey after her husband alerted the UK police.
Egypt is investigating local media reports that 21 Egyptians have been abducted in Libya, AP reports.
The Al Bawaba online publication said the Egyptians had been staying in the southeastern Kufra region and communications with their families stopped on December 31.
IS militants in Libya beheaded 21 Egyptian Christians in 2015, showing the murders in a graphic video that prompted Egypt to launch air strikes against the group.
AFP has tweeted this graphic showing the location of the three Syrian cities where Damascus has allowed the UN and Red Cross access on humanitarian grounds.
The activist group Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently have posted a picture that they say is of Ali Saker, the IS militant who killed his mother in Raqqa.
The group also say that reports claiming Ali Saker killed his mother because she tried to persuade him to leave IS are not true.
Iraq analyst @Alex_de_M has geolocated the site of yesterday's suicide truck bombing in a police facility in Zlitan, Libya, that killed over 60 people.
New statistics released by the United States Air Force suggest the air war against the IS group is expanding, the Washington Post reports.
For two months in a row -- November and December -- the service dropped over 3,000 munitions. Prior to that the number of munitions dropped has been under 3,000 per month.
Syrian rebel groups including the powerful Islam Army have said that they are facing international pressure to make concessions that would only service to prolong the country's conflict.
The groups said in a statement that an opposition council established to oversee negotiations with the Syrian government was being pushed to "offer concessions that will prolong the suffering of our people and the spilling of their blood."
Staffan de Mistura, the U.N. special envoy to Syria, has arrived in Damascus for talks with Syrian officials in preparation for peace negotiations between President Bashar al-Assad's government and its opponents later this month in Geneva.