The United Nations is looking into whether the man-made humanitarian calamity inside the besieged Syrian town of Madaya is a war crime or a crime against humanity.
Madaya is a rebel-controlled town but has been under siege by Syrian government forces who have surrounded the city since July.
This concludes our live blogging of the crisis surrounding Islamic State for January 12. Check back here tomorrow for more of our continuing coverage.
Nearly one-in-ten Turks do not regard the IS group as a terrorist organization, and more than five percent agree with their actions, according to a new survey published today.
The data was released on the same day as a suspected suicide bombing in Istanbul's tourist district which killed at least 10 people.
British Prime Minister David Cameron has admitted that "there aren't enough" moderate rebels in Syria to defeat the IS group and said that some rebels belong to "relatively hardline Islamist groups."
The Independent quoted Cameron as saying:
"Are all of these people impeccable democrats who would share the view of democracy that you and I have? No, some of them do belong to Islamist groups and some of them belong to relatively hardline Islamist groups but nonetheless that’s the best estimate of the people that we have potentially to work with.
“The reason for not breaking down in huge amounts of granular detail exactly who they are is simply this: we’d be effectively be giving President Assad a sort of list of the groups of the people and potentially the areas that he should be targeting and that’s not my approach.”
Syrian state television is reporting that Syrian government forces "took full control" over the rebel stronghold of Salma in Latakia province.
A court in Istanbul has imposed a ban on reporting the investigation into this morning's attack in the city, including “all kinds of news, interviews, criticism and similar publications in print, visual, social media and all kinds of media on the Internet," Hurriyet is reporting.
The move comes after the Turkish Prime Minister's Office announced a temporary gag order into reporting on the attack this morning.
Airstrikes by the U.S.-led coalition against the IS group blew up a warehouse in Iraq where the Islamic State had stored millions of dollars in cash, the U.S. military has said.
Coalition aircraft targeted a "cash distribution center" near IS-controlled Mosul.
Aid workers who reached a besieged Syrian town spoke of "heartbreaking" conditions being endured by emaciated and starving residents, with hundreds in need of special medical help, Reuters report.
"It's really heartbreaking to see the situation of the people," said Pawel Krzysiek of the International Committee of the Red Cross.
"A while ago I was just approached by a little girl and her first question was did you bring food ... we are really hungry."
Jews in the French city of Marseilles are warned against wearing skullcaps after an attack on a Jewish teacher yesterday, AFP reports.
The teacher, 35, sustained light injuries after a teenage assailant attacked him in what police called an "antisemitic act."
The teenager said that the attack was "for the Islamic State group," the prosecutor in Marseilles said.
Turkey analyst Aaron Stein has these comments about the suicide bombing in Istanbul today.