(Reuters) - A liberal activist sentenced to prison and flogging in Saudi Arabia underwent the first round of 50 lashes in public after Friday prayers, rights watchdog Amnesty International said. Raif Badawi, who set up the "Free Saudi Liberals" website, was arrested in June...
(Reuters) - Saudi Arabia has arrested three Saudi nationals and four Syrians over links to a suicide bombing and gun attack on the kingdom's border with Iraq, the first ground assault by militants on the frontier in years. On Monday, militants killed two Saudi...
Militants from Yemen's Shiite Houthi movement on Thursday kidnapped seven teachers and two students from a religious school in Sanaa's northern Arhab district. The militants kidnapped the teachers and students as part of a search operation the group is conducting in the...
(Reuters) - A car bomb exploded outside a police college in Yemen's capital Sanaa on Wednesday, killing 35 people and wounding dozens, police said, less than a week after a suicide bombing south of the capital left nearly 30 dead. Yemen's sectarian conflict has worsened since...
