The Daily Telegraph's Louisa Loveluck says her contact in the besieged Syrian town of Madaya has said that people there are scared that hunger will return soon.
Turkey is investigating how a militant from Syria managed to carry out a suicide attack killing mainly German tourists yesterday.
The Daily Sabah newspaper said that the bomber, identified as 28-year-old Nabil Fadli, entered Turkey as a refugee on January 5. He was fingerprinted by the Turkish migration service, which is apparently why the authorities were able to identify him so soon after the attack.
Russia's Foreign Ministry has reacted to remarks made yesterday by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that Moscow was seeking to create a "boutique state" in Syria's Latakia province.
A source in the Foreign Ministry said that the remarks were "utter nonsense."
Russia had for years insisted that "Syria should be a sovereign, democratic, secular and integrated state," the source added.
Turkey's interior Minister Efkan Ala is holding a joint press conference with his German counterpart Thomas de Maiziere in Istanbul.
Ala says that nine of those wounded in yesterday's suicide bombing in Istanbul are Germans. Two are in critical condition.
Turkey's Interior Minister Ala says one person has been detained over the bombing in Sultanahmet.
The January 12 suicide bombing in Istanbul's Sultanahnet district was the deadliest attack on Germans abroad in 13 years, CNN reports.
The attack killed ten people, at least eight of whom were Germans, according to CNN.
Turkey's Interior Minister says that the suicide bomber who carried out yesterday's attack in the Sultanahnet district was not being tracked by police.
Turkey's Interior Minister confirms that 11 people died in yesterday's blast in Sultanahnet -- ten people plus the suicide bomber himself.
A further 11 people are still in hospital after being wounded in the attack. Nine of those are Germans and two are in a critical condition.
Turkey's Hurriyet news site is reporting that the Sultanahmet suicide bomber has been identified as a "Saudi asylum seeker."
There was some confusion yesterday over whether the bomber -- named as 28-year-old Nabil Fadli -- was a Syrian or a Saudi who had come to Turkey from Syria.
However, Hurriyet is citing security sources as saying the bomber was a Saudi national.
Fadli applied for asylum to the Zeytinburnu Migration Management Directorate in the Istanbul district on January 5. He had arrived at the center with four other men and then stayed for a few days at his declared address.
In a rather grisly revelation, Hurriyet says Fadli was identified after one of his finger tips was found at the attack site.
A teenage supporter of the IS group who slashed a teacher with a machete in southern France has said he was "proud" of his actions, AFP reports.
A source close to the investigation said that the 15-year-old boy had said he was "ashamed" that he did not manage to kill the 35-year-old teacher, Benjamin Amsellem.
"I don't represent Daesh [IS], they represent me," the teenager reportedly told investigators.
The boy is set to appear before a judge today on terrorism charges.