KUWAIT CITY — It all started over yoga. When an instructor in Kuwait this month advertised a desert wellness yoga retreat, conservatives declared it an assault on Islam. Lawmakers and clerics ...

A court in Kuwait has sentenced a transgender woman to two years behind bars for “misusing phone communication” by “imitating the opposite sex.” Maha al-Mutairi, who also received a fine of 1,000 ...

KUWAIT CITY (AP) — It all started over yoga. When an instructor in Kuwait this month advertised a desert wellness yoga retreat, conservatives declared it an assault on Islam. Lawmakers and clerics ...

Impersonating the opposite sex online. That is the charge that got Maha al-Mutairi, a trans woman, sentenced to two years in Kuwaiti prison earlier this month. She's previously been arrested numerous ...

KUWAIT (Reuters) - A Kuwaiti woman was arrested in Saudi Arabia for trying to drive her father to hospital, a Kuwaiti newspaper reported on Sunday, a week after Saudi women protested against a ban on ...

KUWAIT CITY, Dec 21: The Criminal Security Sector has arrested a Kuwaiti citizen for violating public morals through content ...

Maha Alasaker, “Djinane Alsuwayeh, 29, art director and photographer” (2015) (all images courtesy the artist) While living in New York, Maha Alasaker, a Kuwaiti visual artist, quickly became fed up ...

Kuwaiti women are angry after the military, having allowed female soldiers in combat roles, decided they need the permission of a male guardian and banned them from carrying weapons. Activists have ...

KUWAIT (Reuters) - Women won four seats in Kuwait's parliament in Saturday's election, the first to do so in the Gulf Arab state's history in what will be a blow to the Islamists who have long ...

KUWAIT - Massoumah al-Mubarak knows the power of democracy in Kuwait. She has felt its sting all too sharply. When Kuwait's emir decreed women should have the vote, the freewheeling Parliament - a ...

A Kuwaiti court has sentenced a woman to 11 years in jail for insulting the emir and calling for regime change on social networking site Twitter. Huda al-Ajmi, a 37-year-old teacher, has been also ...