RIA Novosti has this quote from Putin on the fate of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad:
"We will never agree to someone from the outside imposing something."
Life News -- which is close to Russia's security services -- has more detailed quotes from Putin on his comments about the Turkomans in northern Syria.
Turkey has accused Russia of deliberately targeting Turkoman rebel groups in Latakia province, which Russia has denied.
In his press conference today, Putin said that he had never even heard of the Turkomans.
"I had never heard about the Turkomans before. No one said anything," Putin said.
Putin added that in downing the Su-24 jet, Turkey had been acting on behalf of the United States but had put everyone in a difficult position, including the Americans.
The Kremlin's official Twitter account has just tweeted Putin's comments about the costs of the Syrian operation.
Putin said that there have been no losses in the budget.
The mother of James Foley, the American hostage beheaded on camera by the IS group last year, has said that she was angry at French far-right politician Marine Le Pen for posting a graphic photo depicting the act on social media, Reuters reports.
"We are offended that that awful image of our son's brutal murder be used publicly," Diana Foley said in an interview on Europe 1 radio.
"To tweet it again just continues to promote their propaganda -- the horrible way they recruit others who want to be brutal. I certainly do not want that to continue."
Le Pen posted the photo on her Twitter account as well as two others. One of the images showed a man dressed in orange with his severed head placed on his chest.
IS militants are using Ukraine as a transit country to reach the EU and IS-controlled territories in the Middle East, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) and former intelligence officers have said, the Kyiv Post reports.
Mykola Malomuzh, the ex-head of the Intelligence Service of Ukraine and a political consultant, told the Kyiv Post that IS militants have been using Ukraine as a transit corridor because the rules of border crossing in Ukraine are less strict than in other European countries.
Analyst Charlie Winter points out that, despite IS's considerable propaganda efforts to promote its claims that it had established its own currency, the gold dinar, in the lands under its control -- this has not happened, even in its Syrian stronghold of Raqqa.
This just tweeted by Putin's official Twitter account regarding his comments earlier about how long Russia could continue its operation in Syria.
"We can continue the operation in Syria for a long time -- it is financed through the redistribution of budget for exercises of the Russian armed forces," the tweet quotes Putin as saying.
IS militants have overrun new areas in Afghanistan's eastern Nangarhar province, which caused many people flee these areas, but still there is no sign of military action against the extremist group, RFE/RL's Afghan service is reporting.
The Afghan service also reports that an IS radio station called Radio Khelafat has begun broadcasting. Aghan officials say that this FM station is broadcasting from an area on the other side of the border.
Maria Zakharova, Russia's Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, has commented on Facebook about Putin's remarks this morning about Russia's military base in Syria.
Zakharova seems to think that the Americans will have difficulty in translating a Russian phrase that Putin used -- "это бабушка надвое сказала," which translates literally as "granny said ambiguously" but which means "it's anyone's guess" or "we'll just have to wait and see."
"It's interesting how the Pentagon are right now translating and analyzing Putin's words about whether a military base in Syria is needed or not -- that's anyone's guess," Zakharova wrote.
"I feel sorry for those guys, [I hope] it won't overpower them. Well, only if they start looking for a grandmother!"
RIA Novosti is reporting that according to a Russian Foreign Ministry source, Jordan has sent Moscow a list of 160 organizations to be considered for inclusion in a list of terror groups during a meeting of world powers in New York about Syria tomorrow.
Russia said last month that participants in talks in Vienna on Syria had agreed that Jordan would coordinate efforts to compile a common list of terrorist groups in Syria.