A Libyan television channel says two of its reporters were kidnapped by forces loyal to a military commander while covering fighting in the capital, Tripoli

Israel says it has uncovered a network of bots and fake Twitter accounts urging a boycott of the upcoming Israeli-hosted Eurovision song contest

A rights group is calling on Yemen's Houthi rebels to release 10 journalists detained nearly four years ago on "trumped-up" spying charges

Instagram account based on teen Jewish victim's real-life journal creates buzz as new way to share Holocaust testimony

Six former journalists from an opposition newspaper have returned to prison to serve sentences after an appeals court confirmed their conviction on terror charges

Turkish state media says 2 people detained on suspicion of spying for United Arab Emirates

Two Saudi sisters are pleading for help from the former Soviet republic of Georgia after fleeing their country, in the latest case of runaways from the ultra-conservative kingdom posting appeals on social media

The lawyer for an Iranian woman who removed her obligatory Islamic headscarf in a public protest says she has been sentenced to one year in prison but pardoned by the supreme leader

Turkey's state-run news agency says a court has acquitted HSBC's Turkey chief of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan through Twitter

Iranian media: Police helicopter carrying border guards crashes in country's northwest, killing 1