The debate over the burqa is not just about religion, but about identity, security, and how we choose to live together as a ...

Young, urban women in Afghanistan are increasingly ditching the all-enveloping blue burqa with a face mesh that has become a symbol of the Taliban's oppression of women. Since their return to power in ...

MSF say women have been turned away from hospitals in one Afghan city if not wearing a burka [Getty Images] The Taliban authorities in Afghanistan ordered female patients, caretakers and staff to wear ...

Shaima Alawadi, a 32-year-old Iraqi-American, was brutally attacked in her home in El Cajon¸ California, on March 21. She was found unconscious by her eldest daughter, with a note placed by her beaten ...

Women in the western Afghan city of Herat are reportedly being denied access to public hospitals unless they wear a burka, according to medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). The aid group ...

MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan, Sept 28 (Reuters Life!) - A model strutting the catwalk is hardly revolutionary in most countries, but Afghan television's answer to "America's Next Top Model" is breaking ...

ASADABAD, Afghanistan, Dec 24 (Reuters) - A woman carrying a waistcoat filled with explosives under her all-enveloping burqa was arrested on Monday in eastern Afghanistan, provincial officials said, ...

Indian director Alankrita Shrivastava talks about her film Lipstick Waale Sapne or Lipstick Under My Burka and agrees that some of world view may have been influenced her own life in girls-only school ...

The Taliban authorities in Afghanistan ordered female patients, caretakers and staff to wear a burka – a full Islamic veil - to enter public health facilities in the western city of Herat, medical ...