A new report says that Afghan refugees are facing "intensified abusive tactics" in Pakistan amid ongoing pressure for ...

Burqa-clad Afghan women walk on a street in a mostly Afghan neighbourhood in Karachi, Pakistan, in January 2024. A new Human Rights Watch report says that Afghan refugees are facing 'intensified ...

The Kuwaiti Ministry of Interior has announced that women wearing a niqab or burqa while driving will face fines ranging ...

She was extremely good-natured, well-mannered, a decent girl and lived happily in the locality,” said a burqa-clad woman of northeast Delhi’s Sunder Nagri locality where a pall of gloom descended on ...

Many prefer a flowing abaya robe, worn with a hijab headscarf and often a face covering as well – sometimes a medical mask, or a Saudi-style cloth niqab veil that exposes only the eyes. “The new ...

An executive order signed in January by Donald Trump imposes a strict security review of foreigners seeking to enter the US ...

It belongs to something I would call ‘liberal-proof’ cinema. The film opens in the snow-capped picturesque mountains of ...

There's more to wearing the "niqab" -- the austere, all-covering veil favored by ultra-religious Muslim women -- than meets the eye. A recent declaration by a leading Egyptian cleric that women will ...

In today's article, we bear witness to the emergence of some striking photos of Waseem Badami and his wife Mahira making ...

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 ...

Curfew was lifted in two police station areas in Nagpur with restrictions eased for two hours in six other areas. Police ...