The father of a pilot in the Jordanian Air Force, being held by IS is demanding the Jordan government secures his release. Safi Al-Kaseasbah told ITV News: "I am demanding the Jordanian government, from the top to the bottom, to secure my son's freedom!"
The United Nations peacekeeper killed in southern Lebanon today was Spanish, Associated Press have reported.
Zeina Karam, AP's Beruit Bureau Chief says that the Israeli ambassador has called the Spain's foreign minister today offering condolences for the death of the UN peacekeeper.
The peacekeeper, serving with a UN monitoring force in southern Lebanon, was killed as Israel responded with air strikes and artillery fire, a UN spokesman and Spanish officials said.
Lebanon has said that it is still committed to the UN resolution that ended a war between Israel and Hezbollah in 2006.
"The Lebanon reaffirms its commitment to Security Council resolution 1701," Prime Minister Tammam Salam said in a statement published by Lebanon's National News Agency, according to Reuters.
Salam's comments come in the aftermath of a Lebanese Hezbollah group attack on anIsraeli military convoy, which prompted retaliation from Israeli security forces.
Two Israeli soldiers were killed in the Hezbollah attack, Israeli military have said.
A military statement said seven soldiers were also wounded in the attack on a convoy near the Lebanon border.
The family of a Jordanian pilot being held by IS are hopeful that their son will be returned to them but are more angry than anything else.
I spoke to his father this morning and he said he was very annoyed that the Jordanian government had not given any information regarding what stage negotiations are at, if any at all.
He is also very unhappy that his son was sent to fight against IS in the first place.
That reflects a widespread feeling here in Jordan - that Jordan really shouldn't be a part of this coalition against IS militants.
Meanwhile, there has been no indication from those militants that the pilot's release is even on the table, or if it is a possibility.
So while there's some hope here, there is a very keen awareness that this situation could end in the very worst way possible.
A strike by NHS workers in Northern Ireland, including ambulance staff, will definitely go ahead tomorrow after the "failure" to match a pay offer in England, said the GMB union.
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