If you want to understand the new Saudi Arabia, don’t start with oil. Start with a video game. The 39-year-old crown prince ...

Saudi Arabia has rendered toothless the once-feared religious police amid a liberalisation drive, but a planned "public decency" law is stoking controversy with some fearing a revival of morality ...

Saudi Arabia has barred its religious police from pursuing suspects or making arrests, curbing the powers of an institution whose aggressive enforcement of the Islamic kingdom's strict morality ...

In all fairness, the religious police has been formed by the government with a task to protect virtue and prevent vice. The commission, despite many incidents involving its members that even ...

Karen House argues that Mohammed bin Salman has an opportunity to protect his interests and secure peace in the region.

Unlike neighboring countries that have shown signs of openness, when it comes to religious freedom Saudi Arabia remains one ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- Saudi Arabia's religious police have declared Barbie dolls a threat to morality, complaining that the revealing clothes of the "Jewish" toy -- already banned ...

Saudi religious police arrested the man and two women after seeing them on mall cameras "engaging in immoral movements in front of other shoppers," the Al-Yom newspaper said.

Credit - Win McNamee—Getty Images As a boy, Mohammed bin Salman played video games alone in his family palace because Saudi Arabia’s religious police permitted no public entertainment.