"A series of coalition missions were conducted near Bayji, north of Baghdad, where ISIL terrorists were laying improvised explosive devices.”

"UK Reaper continued to provide intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance assistance to coalition aircraft which enabled them to conduct further strikes.”

"They say it is temporary... But it will be temporary only until we overthrow from power (President) Tomislav Nikolic and (Prime Minister) Aleksandar Vucic, our renegades and Serbian traitors."

“Weapons that cause terrible burns and disfigure survivors have been used against towns in both Syria and Ukraine... The recent attacks with incendiary weapons show it’s past time for nations to reassess and strengthen international law on these cruel weapons.”

Rebel forces have clashed with government troops in South Sudan, only days after a ceasefire was agreed to end fighting.

Troops clashed in Upper Nile, Jonglei and Unity states, with both sides blaming each other for restarting hostilities.

A rebel spokesperson said that government soldiers attacked their positions, including oil fields under rebel control, however the government accused rebels of launching attacks first.

The United Nations refugee agency stated that 13.6 million people have been left displaced by fighting in Iraq and Syria, and called for greater international action as winter approaches.

Amin Awad, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees's director for the Middle East and North Africa, said,

"Now when we talk about a million people displaced over two months, or 500,000 overnight, the world is just not responding."

Reuters reported, Awad going on to call for greater international action, stating,

"Other countries in the world, especially the Europeans and beyond, should open their borders and share the burden."

At least 48 students have been killed in a blast at a high school in the northeast Nigerian city of Potiskum on Monday, according to latest reports.

Approximately 2,000 students were gathering for a morning assembly at the Government Technical Science College, when the explosion occured. According to a local morgue attendant, 48 bodies have been brought to the hospital so far, all of them appearing to be between the ages of 11 and 20 years old.