The World Food Program (WFP) has tweeted these statistics about the aid that reached the besieged Syrian town of Madaya yesterday.
Turkey's Daily Sabah has more details on Turkish President Erdogan's comments regarding this morning's blast in Istanbul that killed 10 people.
Erdogan told ambassadors at the Presidential Palace in Ankara that the blast was caused by a Syrian suicide bomber.
"This incident once again has shown us that we have to stay united against terrorism," Erdogan said
In an attempt to curb the numbers of British women traveling to Syria to join the IS group, police in the UK have released a video of female Syrian refugees asking why any woman would choose to take her family to a war zone.
Some 56 women and girls are thought to have traveled to Syria from the UK in 2015 and police have expressed concern over the phenomenon.
The video was released in association with the UK NGO Families Against Stress and Trauma.
One of the refugees appearing in the video, Fatten, says that her family "were living under very bad circumstances and it was getting worse every day."
This morning's bomb blast in Istanbul was carried out by a 28-year-old Syrian suicide bomber, Turkey's deputy prime minister has said.
Elizabeth Hoff, the World Health Representative in Damascus who went to the besieged town of Madaya yesterday with an aid convoy, told Reuters by telephone today that she is "really alarmed" about the situation there.
Hoff said:
"People gathered in the market place. You could see many were malnourished, starving. They were skinny, tired, severely distressed. There was no smile on anybody's face. It is not what you see when you arrive with a convoy. The children I talked to said they had no strength to play."
Shi'ite militiamen in eastern Iraq have carried out reprisal attacks against Sunnis after a double bombing by the IS group, security sources say.
An IS bomb attack in a cafe in Muqdadiya on January 11 killed at least 20 people. Afterward, Shi'ite militiamen went on a "rampage," killing several local Sunnis and destroyed Sunni-owned shops and restaurants, the BBC reports.
Italy has said that it is treating 15 Libyan police officers injured in a January 7 truck bombing by the IS group.
The attack on a police training centre in Zliten killed 50 people and injured over a hundred. Italy has offered medical help to treat 15 of the most seriously injured.
Turkish Prime Minister Davutoglu has spoken by telephone with Germany Chancellor Merkel regarding the blast in Istanbul's Sultanahmet, Daily Sabah reports.
Daily Sabah is also citing sources in the Turkish Prime Minister's Office as saying that most of those killed in the blast were German nationals.
Reuters is also now citing Turkish officials as saying that most of those killed in the Istanbul blast were German citizens.