Seven women from the Iranian national soccer team remain in Australia, an Australian government official said Wednesday, as the rest of their team journeys back to a country at the center of a widenin...

Australian police helped two more members of the Iranian women’s soccer delegation slip their minders to claim asylum, but one has changed her mind and decided to go back to Iran, the country’s interi...

The remaining six women who stayed in Australia had to be moved to a safer location, he said, because the player gave away their location when contacting the embassy.