Britain will deploy a fleet of armed drones to help efforts against Islamic State militants in Iraq outlined the British foreign secretary.

Speaking to the House of Commons on Thursday, Philip Hammond said,

“We are in the process of redeploying some of our Reaper remotely piloted aircraft from Afghanistan to the Middle East to add to our surveillance capabilities.”

In a written statement to parliament, Britain’s defence secretary, Michael Fallon said, the drones would add to the strike capability to the existing jet aircraft that were working in the area.

A 13-year-old boy was shot dead by Israeli troops in a village near Ramallah.

Bahaa Badr was shot on Thursday after Israeli soldiers conducted a raid in the village of Beit Liqya.

He was shot in his chest from close range and died shortly after, reported the Jerusalem Post, quoting Palestinian sources.

The Nigerian military has agreed a truce with militant group Boko Haram, under which terms the kidnapped school girls will be released.

Nigeria's chief of defence staff, Alex Badeh announced the deal on Friday afternoon.

Boko Haram captured vast swathes of land in Nigeria’s northeast in an offensive earlier this year, declaring a caliphate in the region, and was widely condemned for the kidnapping of over 200 school girls in April.

The trial of two Khmer Rouge leaders, accused of committing genocide began on Friday, at the UN backed court in Cambodia.

Nuon Chea, known as Brother Number Two and the former head of state Khleu Samphan were sentenced to life in prison in August by the court, after being found guilty of crimes against humanity. Both men are in their 80s.

The men have been accused of committing a genocide against Muslim and ethnic Vietnamese people in Cambodia between 1975-1979. The trial is expected to continue until 2016 or 2017.

Turkey failed to win a seat at the United Nations Security Council, after member states voted for countries to fill the organisation’s non-permanent seats on Thursday.

The five non-permanent seats were awarded to Venezuela, Angola, Malaysia, New Zealand and Spain.

Turkey, which had been reportedly lobbying heavily amongst member states, lost to Spain in the third round run-off of voting.

The state-run Anadolu Agency reported Turkish foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu as saying,

“There may be some countries disturbed by our principled stance, and there have always been those, who, after some time, confess that Turkey’s position was right. So, we could not abandon our principles for the sake of getting more votes.”

Islamic State militants retreated from parts of the Syrian border town of Kobane today for the first time, reports the BBC.

US officials said that hundreds of IS militants were killed in a barrage of intensified airstrikes today.

Leaders from the US, UK, France, Germany and Italy agreed to increase support to local forces in Iraq and Syria to aid efforts against IS militants, the British Prime Minister’s office said on Wednesday.

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Groups searching for 43 missing students in Mexico say they have discovered 6 new mass graves.

At least two of the graves have human remains in them, according to civilians, who joined the search around Iguala, after bodies discovered previously were found not be those of the students.

If the discovery is confirmed, it would bring the number of mass graves found in the area since the students' disappearance to 19.

The students disappeared after clashes with local police, during which six people died. Eyewitnesses say the students were bundled into police vehicles.

The leader of the Mombasa Republican Council, a separatist group based in southern Kenya, has been charged with holding an illegal gathering and planning to breach the peace.

Omar Mwamnuadzi was arrested with 11 other members of the MRC during a police raid on his home and denied the charges in a court appearance on Wednesday.

Although the Kenyan High Court lifted the ban on the group in 2012, the government still considers the MRC to be a terrorist group.