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.
Reuters have tweeted this image of oil storage tanks on fire at Sidra following IS attacks on January 4 and 5.
A video of the fires at the Sidra oil terminal following clashes with IS on January 5.
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.
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.
Syrian peace talks will be affected by Iran's diplomatic spat with Saudi Arabia, but Tehran will "stay committed" to the talks, Iran's Depurty Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has said.
Jihad researcher Kevin Jackson has tweeted more details from the biography of Abu al-Mughirah al-Qahtani, the now-dead leader of IS in Libya.
IS posted the biography, in Arabic, to the JustPaste.it site last night.
In it, Qahtani is praised as one of the founders of IS and the person who led its expansion in North Africa, Jackson tweets.
Qahtani was jailed twice, first in 2008.
Syrian activists and an official with the Ahrar al-Sham ultraconservative Islamist rebel group say gunmen have shot and killed Abu Rateb al-Homsy, the group's leader in Homs province.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that al-Homsy was killed when in a car with his wife in Farhaniyeh village.
Abdel Moneim Dwillah, the 15-year-old Tripoli teenager thought to be one of the suicide bombers used by IS to attack the oil port of Sirta on January 4, was recruited in a mosque in Tripoli, Libya's Al-Wasat is reporting, citing the pan-Arabic Al Hayat newspaper.
Al Hayat quoted security sources as saying that Abdel Moneim's cellphone had shown he was in Al Khums, a city on the coast east of Tripoli. The phone was later turned off and after a time Abdel Moneim called his brother in Tripoli and told him he was in Sirte, "waging jihad" with IS.
Brett McGurk, the U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter IS, has tweeted that Iraq is celebrating Army Day today.