Iraq’s Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has visited the southern oil city of Basra after deadly protests there against dire economic conditions. Abadi visited the city on Friday and met with military and security officials, the country’s al-Sumaria television network reported. Protests have been bubbling away in the city since Sunday, ...
Saudi Arabia has detained a prominent Islamic scholar and three of his sons, activists said Thursday, in a widening crackdown against clerics, intellectuals and rights campaigners. Rights campaigners and online activists said Sheikh Safar al-Hawali, a Sunni scholar and leading figure in Saudi Arabia’s Islamic Sahwa reformist movement, had been ...
