A former senior director at a British firm said that it employed mercenaries from Sierra Leanne to work in Iraq due as they were cheaper than Europeans, reports the Guardian.

US defence officials said on Monday that they will deploy a further 200 troops as advisers for Iraqi troops as they advance towards Mosul, and provide up to $415 million to Kurdish Peshmerga military units.

Former Rwandan politician Leon Mugesera, who was extradited from Canada in 2012, has been jailed for life over his role in the 2004 genocide.

The former official with the then-ruling Hutu party described Tutsis as "cockroaches" and called for their extermination, during a speech in 1992.

 The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation reaffirmed its support to the peoples of Palestine and Jammu and Kashmir for the realisation of their right to self-determination.

Nigeria's military secretly buried more than 300 Shia Muslims in a mass grave, according to officials, prompting Amnesty International to call for an investigation.

Officials in the state of Kaduna told an inquiry that soldiers took bodies from a morgue to a bush site following a crackdown on a pro-Iranian sect, the BBC reports.

A Bosnian Serb suspeced of carrying out crimes against humanity is to be extradited to Sarajevo to face charges after a court in France ruled in favour of hte extradition.

Iraqi Kurds have launched their own .krd domain name for an independent cyber region for Kurdistan, reports Reuters.

The .krd domain name was granted in 2013 by the US based non-profit organisation which regulates the domains, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).

South Sudanese rebel leader Riek Machar has returned to his country as part of a peace deal struck with President Salva Kiir's government.

His spokesman told the BBC that Mr Machar was now at rebel military headquarters in the eastern town of Pagak. the first time he has entere the country in two years.

The UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon, marking International Day of Reflection on the Genocide in Rwanda, on Tuesday stressed the need to prevent genocide by fighting "genocide ideology".

Officials at UK immigration have been hacking into the phones of asylum seekers over the past three years, The Independent reported this week.