Facing petitions to the High Court, military announces it will recruit female soldiers to Armored Corps, allow them to deploy along Egyptian, Jordanian borders

2 former soldiers who completed tank commander course appeal to High Court in second such petition forcing IDF to explain its decision to halt gender integration of armored units

Instagram stars, former Victoria's Secret models, and Hollywood actors travel to Riyadh for three-day musical extravaganza

Masih Alinejad, a women's rights advocate who fled Islamic Republic after 2009 unrest, recently obtained American citizenship

'She's Gone,' a project currently featured at Tel Aviv municipality, displays garment items worn by victims of domestic violence; will be showcased next at UN headquarters

Country commemorates 13 women killed by family members since start of 2019; iconic buildings lit up in red as Knesset hearings focus on violence in the home

Since her father's death, Huda Nasrallah, a Christian, has demanded an equal share of property left to her two brothers; Islamic inheritance laws favor male heirs

'Feminism is not criminalized,' says kingdom's Human Rights Commission; retracted video also decried homosexuality and atheism, which are both punishable by death

'There have been some developments, but not enough,' says Dalia al-Darawish, one of the only female truck drivers in the West Bank, where women have been pushing for social change

The University of Rojava this year launched a women's studies program that seeks to educate its students on how to cope with everyday sexism