(Reuters) - Kurdish forces defending Kobani urged a U.S.-led coalition to escalate air strikes on Islamic State fighters who tightened their grip on the Syrian town at the border with Turkey on Saturday. A group that monitors the Syrian civil war said the Kurdish forces...

(Reuters)- Tunisia has arrested some 1,500 suspected jihadists this year, Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa told Reuters, part of a security crackdown aimed at safeguarding the North African country's fragile transition to democracy. Among those held are hundreds of militants...

(Reuters) - Turkey has agreed to support the training and equipping of moderate opposition groups in Syria , the U.S. State Department said on Friday, saying a U.S. military planning team would visit Ankara next week to further talks on the matter. " Turkey has agreed...

(Reuters) - The effectiveness of the U.S.-led coalition effort in Syria is under scrutiny as Islamic State fighters try to overrun a strategic Syrian town on Turkey's border. The United States and its allies, including Gulf states, have conducted more than 130 airstrikes in Syria...