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 ...

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 ...

Afghanistan’s Taliban-led government ordered women to wear a burqa in public areas and government institutions, in a re-emergence of the head-to-toe covering less than a year after it took control of ...

The burqa, a symbol of Taliban repression of women, remains a common sight in Afghanistan, nearly three years after the hard-line government was ousted by U.S. forces. In Kabul, more than half of the ...

A series of viral videos featuring a Chinese man touring Pakistan has triggered widespread outrage on social media, with ...

HERAT, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Nehmatullah Yusefy's burqa sales have dropped 50 percent since the Taliban were toppled in 2001 and he says he will soon need to start stocking other styles of Islamic ...

A viral video allegedly showing a Chinese youth mocking burqa-clad women in an Islamabad market has sparked outrage online.

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When a woman wearing a blue burqa showed up near the Kabul airport three days after the Taliban fled the capital last November, no one gave her a second glance. But heads turned when she marched up to ...

The Taliban reportedly shot and killed a woman in Afghanistan on Tuesday for not wearing a burqa. The gruesome photo, that is now circulating on social media, shows a woman lying in a pool of blood as ...