Turkey's state-run news agency says prosecutors are seeking a maximum one year prison term for a former beauty queen who was stripped of her crown over a social media posting deemed to be "insulting" to the victims of last year's failed coup

The United Nations is urging an immediate halt to fighting in Yemen's capital following the dramatic escalation of ground clashes and airstrikes that have trapped thousands and prevented the injured from being reached

United Arab Emirates' state-run news agency denies claim that Yemeni missile targeted under-construction nuclear plant

Opposition newspaper Cumhuriyet says a court has convicted its online editor Oguz Guven of charges of engaging in "terrorist propaganda" and sentenced him to three years and one month in prison

An Iranian official has acknowledged Tehran and Britain are talking about the possible release of some 400 million pounds held by London since the 1979 Islamic Revolution

An Iranian opposition news website says authorities have barred former reformist President Mohammad Khatami from attending a meeting of his allies

Unpopular with liberals, media, Israel's nationalist government finds close friend among world's evangelical Christians

Cairo daily counsels Egyptian soccer fans traveling to the World Cup to lower their expectations about meeting Russian women

Turkish state media reports bombing against police bus in southern city, ambulances sent