Though she requested a guarantee that she could be “openly out as a lesbian on stage and perform gay material,” Kirson is ...

American comics used Saudi Arabia’s first global comedy festival to skewer a debate raging at home. Critics said the event ...

A rights group is urging some top-level Western comedians not to be "complicit in covering up the abuses of a repressive ...

"It’s easier to talk here than it is in America," the comedian told an audience at the Riyadh Comedy Festival.

It turns out that edgy free-speech warriors will scuttle their principles for a check from a brutal autocratic regime.

The Riyadh Comedy Festival’s critics say that high-profile American comics are lending legitimacy to a government that represses dissent, jails activists and restricts free speech.

Comedian Jessica Kirson, an openly gay woman whose sexuality has been a common thread through her performances for years, ...

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -Arab and Muslim countries warned Donald Trump about the grave consequences of any Israeli ...

Shawn McCreesh pressed Karoline Leavitt on Jared Kushner’s recent role in Middle East negotiations – a region in which he has ...

The comics participating in the Riyadh Comedy Festival join a long history of stars shining up brutal regimes.

Minutes after journalists gathered outside a Gaza hospital to survey the damage of an Israeli strike, Ibrahim Qannan pointed ...