Painful wait in Saudi for family of detained Syrian chess champion

Rania al-Abassi, a Syrian dentist and former national chess champion, disappeared into Assad's lethal network of detention facilities in 2013 along with her husband and their six children. She had declined relatives' invitations to seek safety in Saudi Arabia, where she herself once lived for more than a decade, after the Syrian uprising devolved into civil war, thinking she would be safe because she was not involved in politics. For more than a week now, ever since a lightning offensive by the...