The United Nations Secretary General is facing strong calls to include the Saudi-led coalitionon its annual black list report that names nations and armed groups for killing and maiming children during war.

A petition, with over 370,00 singatures, has been submitted to the UN Secretary General’s office calling for the blacklisting of the Saudi led coaltion for its indiscriminate bombing of Yemen.

At least 13 people have died and dozens are injured from a terror attack in which a van was ploughed into crowds in a busy tourist area of Barcelona.

The vehicle sped along the pedestrian area of the famous Las Ramblas area, a touristic and commercial hotspot in the Catalan capital.

Two people have been arrested, but police say neither was the driver.

The Iraqi Prime Minister’s office said a unit of its security forces had committed abuses against civilians during an offensive to oust Islamic State insurgents from the City of Mosul reports Reuters.

The United Nations hopes to restart peace talks on Syria in September said the UN Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura on Thursday.

The Special Envoy said he and planned a brief round of UN diplomacy with opposition forces for mid-September.

The International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant on Tuesday for a Libyan military commander who is accused of being responsible for summary executions.

In a statement, the ICC said it "issued a warrant of arrest for Mahmoud Mustafa Busayf al-Werfalli, allegedly responsible for murder as a war crime in the context of the non-international armed conflict in Libya."

The International Criminal Court ruled on Thursday that the Malian man responsible for destroying the Timbuktu shrine was liable for 2.7 million euroes in reparations for the damage caused.

Amad al-Faqi al-Mahdi was sentenced last year for 9 years after being found guilty of war crimes over destruction of 10 shrines and holy sites in Timbuktu.

The judges ordered that the victims be paid "individual, collective and symbolic" reparations. 

Iraq is working with the United Kingdom to pass a resolution calling for an international investigation into crimes against humanity committed by Islamic State at the Untied Nations Security Council reports Reuters.

The Iranian president, Hassan Rouhani, threatened to abandon the 2015 nuclear deal within hours if the United States continued to impose new sanctions.

Speaking in a televised address Mr Rouhani, said US President Donald Trump’s actions showed that he was an unreliable partner not just for Iran but US allies as well.

Accusing the US of breaking the nuclear agreement (JCPOA), he said,

A court in Kosovo has detained a Kosovo Albanian for allegedly working with Serbian troops and committing war crimes in 1999.

Agim Sahitaj has been remanded for one month, after claims that we worked with Serbian troops in April 1999 as they “killed, wounded, beat and harassed Kosovo Albanian civilians, looted their possessions and forcibly expelled them from their homes,” reports Balkan Insight.

The perpetrator was allegedly uniformed and armed at the time.

A Iraqi military unit that was trained by the United States is linked to alleged war crimes in Mosul, where it allegedly executed several prisoners, states Human Rights Watch (HRW).

Human Rights Watch called on the US government to “suspend all assistance and support to the 16th Division pending Iraq’s full investigation of the allegations and appropriate prosecutions”.

Troops from that division are accused of executing several dozen prisoners, including a young boy.

Three bombs have been detonated in the city of Maiduguri, Nigeria, on Tuesday killing at least 30 people. Over 80 people are thought to be injured. 

The attacks are believed to have been carried out by Boko Haram. However, no group has claimed responsibility for the attack. 

In an open letter to the US president, Donald Trump on Tuesday, the Taliban called for the removal of all US troops from Afghanistan and urged him to interact "generously" with the country. 

Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May said the UK “will never vote against credible Security Council action to stop mass atrocities and crimes against humanity,“ in remarks to the Conservative Party this week.

In a statement to mark the party’s ‘Declaration Against Genocide’, Ms May said the “United Kingdom has proudly made clear” that it would not block action to stop such crimes at the UN Security Council.

A man accused of taking part in the Rwandan genocide faces charges of immigration fraud in the US, after lying to authorities about his membership of the political party that led the massacres.