This concludes our live blogging on the Islamic State group for January 6. Check back here tomorrow for more of our continuing coverage.
The IS group has claimed responsibility for a suicide car bombing yesterday (Janauary 7) in Ras Lanuf, an oil port in Libya's oil crescent. AFP is reporting this morning.
IS's Libyan affiliate released a statement saying that the attack east of the IS-held coastal town of Sirte, was carried out by a foreign fighter using an explosives-packed car.
No group has yet taken responsibility for a second suicide bombing on January 7 in Zliten, west of Tripoli, which killed over 50 people including a baby.
Special-forces raids on an Islamic State stronghold in northern Iraq are under way before a planned offensive to retake Mosul, Iraq's parliamentary speaker Salim al-Jabouri told Reuters on January 7.
No group has yet claimed responsibility for yesterday's suicide attack on Zliten that killed over 50 people.
AFP have shared this graphic showing the locations and casualty figures from the two suicide bombings yesterday in Libya that killed more than 56 people.
IS has claimed responsibility for the attack at Ras Lanuf in Libya's oil crescent -- which the militant group has attacked several times this week -- but it is still unknown who was behind the deadlier attack at Zliten.
This is the announcement by the IS group this morning claiming responsibility for the Ras Lanuf suicide bombing. The bomber is named as Abu al-Abbas al-Muhajir ("the foreign fighter"), indicating that the perpetrator was not Libyan.
AFP has breaking news relating to the ongoing investigations into the November 13 attacks in Paris.
A fingerprint belonging to a fugitive wanted in connection with the attack has been found in a apartment in Brussels in Belgium.
Suicide vests and explosives traces have also been found in a Brussels apartment, though it is not clear yet whether this is the same apartment where the fingerprint was found.
Reuters has more on the breaking news that Belgian prosecutors have found suicide belts and a fingerprint of a Paris attacks fugitive in a Brussels apartment.
These are not new finds but relate to a police raid on December 10.
Reuters reports that Belgian federal prosecutors have confirmed a report in a Belgian newspaper that said police had found traces of explosives, handmade belts and the fingerprint of a "key Paris attacks fugitive" during a December 10 raid on an apartment in the Schaerbeek area of Brussels.
Reuters does not name the fugitive but other reports say the individual in question is Saleh Abdeslam.
The apartment had been rented in a false name that might be linked to a person in custody in connection with the Paris attacks.
The Independent has published quotes from a statement this morning by the Belgian federal prosecutor that give more details about the items found in a police raid on a Brussels apartment in connection with the November 13 Paris attacks.
The statement confirms that the "key Paris attacks fugitive" whose fingerprint was found in the apartment is Saleh Abdeslam, who is still on the run.
“Material that can be used to fabricate explosives as well as traces of TATP (acetone peroxide) were found,” a statement from the Belgian federal prosecutor said.
“This apartment was rented under a false identity that might have been used by a person already in custody in this case.
“Three handmade belts that might be used to transport explosives as well as a fingerprint of Salah Abdeslam were also discovered.”