Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki ordered Monday air support for Kurdish Peshmerga troops who are planning a counter-offensive against Islamic State of Iraq and Syria fighters in northern Iraq after being routed in battles on Sunday, the Associated Press reported. A Kurdish...

(Reuters) - A Tunisian soldier was killed after Islamist militants tried to storm an army base early on Sunday in the town of Sbitla near the Algerian border, the Tunisian government said on Sunday. Militant assaults on the Tunisian army have become more frequent in recent...

(Reuters) - The Lebanese army advanced on Monday into a border town attacked by Islamists at the weekend in the most serious spillover of the three-year-old Syrian civil war into Lebanon, and the Beirut government said the deadly assault would not go unpunished. With army...

n">(Reuters) - Bank shares are helping Wall Street on Monday after the previous week's fall, following a rescue deal for Portugal's largest listed lender and supported also by earnings from companies such as Berkshire Hathaway ( BRKb.N ). Berkshire shares are up 1 percent...