A court in Bahrain reportedly sentences 50 Shia Muslims to up to 15 years in prison for forming a group linked to demands for more majority rights.
Pakistani and Indian PMs agree at meeting in New York to try to restore calm as initial step towards reconciliation.
At least 15 killed in blast in Shia mosque south of Baghdad, just hours after suicide car bombing kills 11 in Erbil.
Faced with an escalating campaign for an end to the ban on Saudi women driving, a conservative cleric says women drivers risk damaging their ovaries.
Activists say 12 people dead and dozens more wounded in aerial raid on secondary school in northeastern city of Raqqa.
Leaked intelligence report suggests security alert about possible attack on Westgate shopping centre was ignored.
الشيخ صالح بن سعد اللحيدان رجل الدين السعودي البارز يقول إن قيادة المرأة للسيارة قد يضر بالمبايض ومنطقة الحوض مما قد يؤدي إلى اصابة أطفالهن
Multiple bombs explode outside Erbil, the normally quiet capital of the autonomous province of Kurdistan, officials say.
A series of explosions rocks the Iraqi city of Irbil, the normally quiet capital of the autonomous province of Kurdistan.