Sara Hussein of AFP tweets that the aid operations sent today to three besieged Syrian towns have to enter the towns simultaneously.
Madaya, near Damascus, is held by rebels and besieged by government forces.
The government controlled Shi'ite towns of Foua and Kefraya are besieged by rebels including Al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate the Al-Nusra Front.
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak has condemned the actions of two Malaysians reportedly involved in suicide bombings in Syria and Iraq that killed more than 30 people, Channel News Asia reports.
“Their actions and ideology have no place in Malaysia or Islam, and the Government is absolutely committed to fighting terrorism in all its forms and guises, both at home and overseas,” Mr Najib wrote on his Facebook page.
The New Straits Times reported earlier today that one of the bombers, Mohd Amirul Ahmad Rahim, 26, who went under the nom de guerre Abu Uqash Malizi, detonated bombs during clashes in IS's Syrian stronghold Raqqa on December 29.
On January 3, a second Malaysian, Mohamad Syazwan Mohd Salim, 31, carried out a suicide attack at the Camp Speicher military base near Tikrit in Iraq.
As Reuters reported earlier, a spokesman for Libya's Petroleum Facilities Guard in Sidra says suspected IS militants used three boats to try to access the Zueitina oil port.
Pawel Krzysiek, the spokesman for the International Committee of the Red Cross in Syria, says that the Red Cross, Syrian Arab Red Crescent and UN convoy is en route to the rebel-besieged Shi'ite villages of Kefraya and Foua.
At least eight children have been killed along with their teacher in a Russian air strike on a school in the town of Anjara in Aleppo province in Syria, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has said.
SOHR also reported that three children have been killed by rebel rocket fire on a government-held district in Aleppo city.
Al-Qaeda's Yemeni branch and North African wing has warned Saudi Arabia it will pay for the executions of dozens of its members, Reuters reports.
Saudi Arabia killed 47 people including a Shi'ite cleric but mostly Al-Qaeda militants in a mass execution on January 2.
"But they (Riyadh) insisted on offering the blood of the good Mujahideen as a sacrifice for the Crusaders on their holiday, in the New Year," the two groups said in a statement posted on social media on January 10.
"Let them wait for the day when God will heal the chests of the families of the martyrs, their brothers and those who love them from the arrogant infidel."
The Danish government is trying to build the political support needed to send as many as 50 special operations forces into Syria and Iraq, Denmark's Politiken is reporting this morning.
The government is seeking to send up to 50 specially-trained troops on missions into both Syria and Iraq, in response to a request last month by the United States that Denmark increase its efforts in the fight against the IS group.
In Syria, the BBC has tweeted this short video of Syrian Arab Red Crescent trucks with food aid this morning for civilians in the besieged town of Madaya.
As the first images of Paris attacks fugitive Saleh Abdeslam during his flight from Paris to Brussels on November 14 emerge, AFP reports this morning on the financial impact of the November 13 attacks.
Franco-Dutch airline group Air France-KLM said Monday that the November 13 terror attacks in Paris reduced its December turnover by an estimated 70 million euros ($76.42 million).
But the effect had largely tailed off over the past two weeks, it added.
The first images have emerged of Paris attacks fugitive Saleh Abdeslam fleeing to Belgium in the immediate aftermath of the November 13 attacks, French TV news channel BFMTV, which published the images this morning, is reporting.
The images were taken by a CCTV camera in a gas station on the Belgian border on the morning of November 14 and show Abdeslam with Mohammed Amri, one of the two accomplices who took him from Paris to Brussels.
Abdeslam and his accomplices Hamza Attou and Mohammed Amri stopped at the gas station during the journey, where they refueled their Golf car before traveling on. Le Figaro notes that the men did not bother to cover their faces.
The trio spent 12 minutes in the gas station where Abdeslam, knowing that he was not (yet) a wanted man, appeared relaxed, and strolled around with his hands in his pockets, BFMTV reports.