Saudi Arabia, under domestic and international pressure to grant women sporting rights, is creating separate stadium sections so that female spectators and journalists can attend soccer matches in a country that has no public physical education or sporting facilities for women.

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- A Saudi newspaper says the kingdom's religious police are now allowing women to ride motorbikes and bicycles but only in restr...

Last Sunday, history was made in Saudi Arabia when the recently sworn-in Shura Council, the country's consultative assembly, held its first session with 30 women appointees participating for the first time.

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- A Saudi cleric says even girls who have not yet reached puberty should be covered from head to toe, citing instances of child ...

Middle Eastern soccer associations have launched a campaign to put women's soccer on par with men's football in a region in which a woman's right to play and pursue an athletic career remains controversial and at a time at which political Islam is on the rise.

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Saudi Arabia's king granted women seats on the country's top advisory council for the first time on Friday, giving them a...

The images of two strong, courageous young Saudi women athletes will forever exist as part of Saudi history. If you listen to the voices of the women interviewed herein, you can hear that a bell of hope and expectation has been rung.

It’s a Saudi sit-in. Except these women aren’t occupying King Abdullah Street... they’re sitting in their cars. Women all over Saudi Arabia a...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah has dismissed a controversial ultraconservative adviser after he publicly criticized reforms aime...

LONDON, April 28 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia has set up a ministerial committee to consider allowing women's sports clubs, al-Watan daily newspaper rep...

By Asma Alsharif JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia, Feb 29 (Reuters) - The image of 24-year-old Nour Fitiany resting courtside as the pounding of ...

Saudi Arabia is building its first stadium especially designed to allow women who are currently barred from attending soccer matches because of the kingdom's strict public gender segregation to watch games.

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- A government-run Saudi Arabian newspaper reports that for the first time in the conservative Muslim country, women will be all...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Saudi Arabia said Monday it will begin enforcing a law that allows only females to work in women's lingerie and apparel s...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — A report given to a high-level advisory group in Saudi Arabia claims that allowing women in the kingdom to drive could en...

CAIRO — A Saudi woman was sentenced Tuesday to be lashed 10 times with a whip for defying the kingdom's prohibition on female drivers, the first...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah, considered a reformer by the standards of his own ultraconservative kingdom, decreed on Sun...

(Reuters) - Six orphan girls aged between 12 and 18 were flogged in Saudi Arabia after being convicted of attacking the head of their orphanage, a...

"Let her get fat!" is the slogan women in Saudi Arabia are using to challenge a clampdown on female-only gyms....