Turkish police have detained a prominent investigative journalist for questioning over a series of social media postings, while a novelist and eight of her former colleagues at a defunct newspaper went on trial on terror-related charges

A prominent activist in Bahrain who was to be freed on bail has been detained over other investigations

Iraq's Interior Ministry says gunmen kidnapped an Iraqi journalist after breaking into her Baghdad home, a reminder of the dangers reporters face in a war-torn country where authorities have struggled to maintain security

A fake news story has touched off a tense Twitter confrontation between nuclear power Pakistan and Israel in an episode that underlines the potentially harmful impact of such stories in sensitive global affairs

Turkey's Interior Ministry said Saturday authorities had formally arrested 1,656 people in the past six months for allegedly supporting terrorist organizations or insulting officials on social media - and are investigating at least 10,000 others

Turkey has restricted access to social media websites for several hours after the Islamic State group released a video purportedly showing two Turkish soldiers being burned alive

A court in Oman has ruled in favor of a government decision to shut down a daily Arabic newspaper and jail three of its journalists, including its editor-in-chief, for reporting on alleged corruption within the judiciary

Two opposition journalists are on trial again in Turkey, accused of aiding the movement led by U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen that the government has branded a terror organization

An Israeli Cabinet minister says the government and Facebook have agreed to work together to determine how to tackle incitement on the social media network

Turkey's deputy prime minister says authorities have foiled close to 230 Kurdish rebel attacks in the past few weeks, including 19 would-be suicide bombings