The flight operated by flyadeal, budget subsidiary of flag carrier Saudia, was from the capital Riyadh to the Red Sea coastal city of Jedda...

Traditionally, Saudi women were forbidden from mixing with men outside their extended family. But following the lifting of ban on woman dri...

Saudi Arabia started allowing women to drive vehicles in 2018 after a decades-old ban. It was one of many initiatives to integrate women in...

This move is the latest in a series of measures aimed at increasing the rights of women in the kingdom. The plan was first announced in 201...

As current chair of the Group of 20 major economies, Riyadh has tried to improve its image after global outrage at the 2018 murder of journ...

Ending the ban is one of the most socially-consequential reforms implemented by Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

The world's last such ban had been justified on a variety of religious and cultural grounds such as the proposition that women driving woul...

Teenagers gathered on Riyadh’s main boulevard to gawk. Men cracked jokes about how lucky they were to no longer have to chauffeur their wiv...

Princess Hayfa bint Abdullah al-Saud is in the driver's seat wearing leather gloves and high heels.

All the requirements for women in the kingdom to start driving have been established, Bassami was quoted as saying in a statement released ...

Joining the chorus are automakers looking to capitalise on the move, racing each other to get their first words out to woo prospective fema...

Analysts say Prince Salman does seem to have a long-term vision of a more socially and economically liberal kingdom that could become a reg...

Saudi Arabia is afraid of future. That's why it is opening up. Letting women drive cars is part of a comprehensive plan that aims to divers...

Saudi King Salman ordered that women be allowed to drive cars for the first time in the next summer, ending a conservative tradition seen b...

Heptulla hailed as "great achievement" victory registered by women candidates in local body polls in Saudi and greeted the people of that c...

Women in different countries are subjected to various prohibitions, but there are some bans that are outright bizarre.

We, of course, have our own versions, often found to, for instance, expounding their ideas for the betterment and progress of women.