Bangladesh has executed two opposition leaders for war crimes committed during the 1971 independence struggle against Pakistan.

Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury and Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid were convicted of genocide and rape and were hanged in Dhaka's central jail.

A special war crimes tribunal found Mr Chowdhury guilty of nine out of 23 charges including genocide, arson and persecuting people on religious and political grounds.

A British teenager became the first British citizen convicted of trying to join the fight against Islamic State in Syria.

Silhan Ozcelik, an 18 year old, ran away from home to join the Kurdistan Workers party’s women militia, a wing of the proscribed Kurdish militant PKK organisation.

A United Nations General Assembly committee condemned what it described as rampant and planned human rights abuses in North Korea reports Reuters.

The non-binding resolution adopted by the UN General assembly’s 3rd committee referred to the findings of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) commission of inquiry that concluded that rights abuses in North Korea may amount to war crimes.

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) urged European countries to continue accepting refugees fleeing from persecution and conflict.

Calling on countries not to react to the Paris terrorist attacks, the UNHCR chief spokeswoman Melissa Fleming said,

Bosnia has arrested a police commissioner, a lawyer and a third man, all Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims)suspected of having committed war crimes against Bosnian Serb civilians during the war in the early nineties.

The Sarajevo-based lawyer Ibro Merkez and Gorazde police commissioner Esef Huric were arrested on Tuesday on suspcion of having illegally imprisoned more than 100 Serbs from the eastern town of Gorazde at the local police station.

The Serb civilians were held for several months in inhumane conditions, causing two deaths, a statement from the state prosecutor said.

After the arrests Serbs permanently left Gorazde.

Finish officials arrested an Iraqi man on suspicion of committing war crimes in Iraq in 2014, reports abc news.

The Pirkanmaa Regional Court in Finald, confirmed that a suspect was held in custody on allegations of committing war crimes in Iraq during June 2015.

Jabbar Salman Ammar was detained by Finland’s police on Friday said Detective Superintendent Jari Raty during a press brief this week.

Saudi Arabia's foreign minister said his country would continue to support Syrian rebels if President Bashar al-Assad was not removed through a political process, reports Reuters.

Speaking to press at the sidelines of the international Syria peace talks in Vienna, Adel al-Jubier said,

"We will support the political process that will result in (Assad) leaving, or we will continue to support Syrian opposition to remove him by force."

French fighter jets bombarded Islamic State positions on Sunday in what is seen as a direct response to the terror attacks in Paris on Friday night.

France vowed to destroy Islamic state following Friday’s attacks, after Islamic State claimed responsibility for the terror attacks in Paris, which saw suicide bombings and shootings across the French Capital.

In a statement released on Sunday, describing the biggest French attack on Islamic State positions to date, the Ministry of Defence said,

12.00 The International Criminal Court granted an early release to a convicted war criminal from the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Germain Katanga became the first ICC convict to be freed after being sentenced to 12 years in jail during a trail in 2014.