The US State Department condemned the Assad regime's siege of Homs in order to exert leverage as peace talks take place in Geneva, reports the Washington Post.
The British government today, reached a compromise with the United Nations and agreed to provide refuge for 500 of the most vulnerable refugees from the Syrian conflict.
The deal ends weeks of an UN initiative to encourage Britain to sign up to the UN refugee quota programme for Syria.
The chief executive of the Refugee Council, Maurice Wren, welcomed the news, stating,
Former Bosnian Serb army chief Ratko Mladic refused to testify at The Hague earlier today, after he was called in to testify as a witness for former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic.
Oliver Ivanovic, a leading Kosovo Serb politician was arrested on Monday on suspicion of war crimes.
EU officials said that Ivanovic had been identified as a suspect in the war crimes investigation that took place after the 1990s Kosovo conflict ended.
12 people have been killed by explosions and gunshots in the Xinjiang province, stated Chinese officials, as they blamed the flare up in violence on “terrorists”.
The province, home to mainly Muslin ethnic Uigurs, saw 6 killed by explosions in a market and hairdressers, whilst 6 more were shot dead by police.
A drone strike by the US military is said to have killed a suspected Al-Shabab commander, along with four others, reported the BBC.
US officials could not confirm that the attack was successful, however local residents said that local Al-Shabab leader Sahal Iskudhuq and the others were killed when their convoy was struck by a missile.
A long awaited peace deal has been agreed by the Philippine government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, signalling what many hope will be the end to a 40-year-long violent conflict.
Women and children are to be allowed to leave the besieged Syrian city of Homs, after negotiators reached their first deal in peace talks in Geneva.
According to the UN envoy Lakhdar Brahimi, a relief corridor could be opened up as early as Monday, although the government did not conceed to allowing food and other supplies to be allowed in.
Men who are deemed to be 'non-combatants' after government scrutiny will also be allowed to leave.
The three year anniversary of the start of the Egyptian uprising, which overthrew Hosni Mubarak, has seen demonstrations by both supporters and opponents of the current government, backed by the military.
Police attempted to break up the opposition protests, and clashes left at least 29 demonstrators dead.
Controversy has erupted in the Bosnian town of Visegrad, after Bosnian Serb authorities removed the word ‘genocide’ from a memorial plaque erected in the Eastern town.
The memorial, which read, "to all killed and missing Bosniaks, children, women and men, victims of genocide in Visegrad", was erected in the Straziste Muslim cemetery.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) delayed the trial of Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta today, after receiving a request from the prosecutors to delay the trial by 3 months and a request by Kenyatta’s defence to withdraw the case altogether.
A Rwandan man has placed under arrest by Dutch police, after being suspected of participating in the 1994 genocide and now faces a possible extradition to Rwanda.
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay has called on Burma to investigate reports that 48 Rohingya Muslims were killed in attacks by Buddhists in Rakhine state.
A statement said that the UN had received credible information about the deathsin Du Chee Yar Tan village.
The government and the rebels in South Sudan, who have been involved in deadly clashes over the past month, have agreed to a ceasefire, reported mediators in Addis Ababa.
They said that the rivals are expected to sign the agreement on "cessation of hostilities and the question of the detainees" in the Ethiopian capital.
