Turkish media: court rejects appeal for American pastor's release from detention

Germany's foreign minister says it would be in Turkey's own interest to come to an agreement with the United States and others on the release of foreign prisoners.

Cyprus' government asks Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe to help defend Turkish Cypriot journalists against whom Turkish prosecutors have launched an investigation over an article deemed 'insulting' to Turkey

An Israeli court has sentenced an Arab poet to five months in prison for incitement to violence in social media posts she made during a wave of Israeli-Palestinian violence

Israeli union: Jerusalem magazine lays off cartoonist for depicting Netanyahu, Likud members as pigs from 'Animal Farm'

Turkey's state media: American pastor jailed in Turkey on terror charges is put under house arrest

Egyptian media: Performers of online street dance challenge accused of endangering lives, violating public decency

Iran's state TV says a magnitude 5.8 earthquake injures at least 79 people in country's south

Turkey's state-run news agency says President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has filed complaints against the main opposition party leader and 72 legislators accusing them of insults for posting and sharing a cartoon on social media depicting him as animals

Egypt's parliament passes bill targeting popular social media accounts in latest move to suppress dissent