In September, and after four years of talks, members of the FARC rebel group unanimously agree to a peace deal with the government of Colombia.

In the month since an Iraqi forces-led operation began to liberate Mosul from so-called Islamic State (ISIL), more than 47,000 people have been displaced.

Kurdish peshmerga forces attacked an Islamic State-held town northeast of Mosul on Monday, trying to clear a pocket of militants outside the city while Iraqi troops wage a fierce urban war with the jihadists in its eastern neighbourhoods.

Mosul in Iraq is seeing the most intensive fighting yet since the offensive to retake the city from ISIL militants began more than two weeks ago.

Russia says it will extend a pause in airstrikes on Aleppo until the evening of November 4, two days from now.

It is a symbolic victory in the battle to retake control of the Iraqi city of Mosul from ISIL militants.

An Iraqi and Kurdish led offensive to reclaim Mosul from ISIL militants has begun.

President Bashar al-Assad of Syria has revealed that he was offered aid by Saudi Arabia if he denounced Iran.

The UN special envoy to Syria Staffan De Mistura has said eastern Aleppo faces total destruction that will result in the deaths of thousands of civilians.

Syrian army offensive