The UN on Wednesday air dropped 21 tonnes of humanitarian aid goods to Syria, in its first air drop to the region.

The air drop took place in the region of Deir la-Zour, where the UN estimates over 200,000 civilians have become besieged by Islamic State forces.

"Earlier this morning, a WFP (World Food Programme) plane dropped the first cargo of 21 tonnes of items into Deir al-Zour," the UN's aid chief Stephen O'Brien told the UN Security Council on Wednesday.

A former Bosnian Serb police officer who was convicted and jailed in 2004 for 17 years by international war crimes tribunal in the Hague, was arrested again on Monday along with two other Bosnian Serbs for further charges of war crimes.

Darko Mrdja, who was released from prison in 2013, confessed to have played a part in the killing of over 150 Bosnian Muslims in 1992.

Mr Mrdja, was arrested along side Radenko Marinovic and Milan Gavrilovic, for alleged killing and maltreatment of prisoners at the Omarska and Manjaca detention camps in the northwestern region of Bosnia.

On Friday, a top French official announced that up to 1000 refugees living in the make-shift camp in Calais would be evicted. The camp, unofficially referred to as the “jungle”, is estimated to currently contain around 4000 asylum-seekers.
 
Fabienne Bucio, Prefect of the regional French police prefecture, made the announcement telling Reuters, "I hope we don't have to make an eviction by force” but that “the conditions are there for us to do that and flatten part of the camp that gives Calais a bad image."
 

Award winning US journalist Anna Therese Day and 3 members of her camera crew have been detained in Bahrain confirmed Reporters Without Borders on Monday.

The group called on Bahrain to release the four American citizens without harm.

Bahraini police, who detained the journalists on Sunday, said that they had detained four foreign nationals “suspected of offences including entering Bahrain illegally having submitted false information to border staff, and participating in an unlawful gathering.”

US President Barack Obama called on Russia to stop airstrikes on ‘moderate’ Syrian militants in a telephone conversation with Russian president Vladimir Putin.

The conversation came after major powers, including Russia, agreed to a limited cessation of hostilities in Syria on Friday.

The Kremlin said that President Vladimir Putin had spoken to Obama by telephone and agreed to intensify cooperation to implement the Munich agreement, whilst reiterating its commitment to its campaign against Islamic State and ‘other terrorist organisations,’ reports Reuters.

 Turkey’s military shelled Kurdish militia targets in northern Syria and demanded that the group withdraw from the area, reports Reuters.

The US State Department spokesperson John Kirby urged both Turkey and the Syrian Kurds to step back, saying they should focus instead on tackling a ‘common threat’ of Islamic State militants who control large parts of Syria.
 
“We have urged Syrian Kurdish and other forces affiliated with YPG not to take advantage of a confused situation by seizing new territory.”

Saudi Arabia warned the United Nations and international aid organisations to protect their staff by removing them from areas controlled by the Houthi militants, reports Reuters.

A note circulated amongst embassies and the UN said that the request was to “protect the international organisations and their employees.”

Saudi Arabia has been leading coalition airstrikes against the Houthi militants for almost a year.

Hundreds of thousands of civilians could be cut off from food and aid if Syrian government forces circle rebel-held territories in Aleppo warned the United Nations on Tuesday.

Syrian government forces, backed by Russian airstrikes, launched a heavy offensive around Aleppo, which resulted in UN sponsored peace-talks being temporarily abandoned.

The United Nations office for the Coordination of humanitarian Affairs said,