(Reuters) - Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighters and moderate Syrian rebels bombarded Islamic State positions in Kobani on Monday, but it was unclear if their arrival would turn the tide in the battle for the besieged Syrian border town. Kobani has become a symbolic test of the...

(Reuters) - Islamic State militants have killed 322 members of an Iraqi tribe in western Anbar province, including dozens of women and children whose bodies were dumped in a well, the government said in the first official confirmation of the scale of the massacre. The...

(Reuters) - A Bahrain court released the founder of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights, Nabeel Rajab, on Sunday and adjourned his trial over remarks critical of the state until Jan. 20, according to Rajab's Twitter account. One of the most high-profile democracy campaigners...

(Reuters) - Unidentified gunmen shot and killed a leader of a liberal Yemeni political party that is close to the powerful Houthi rebel group on Sunday, the official state news agency Saba said. The killing took place one day after Yemen's main political factions, including...