Tired of burkas that cover the face, urban women under the Taliban’s ‘gender apartheid’ have adopted the abaya robe favoured ...

Instead, we must strain to peer through the mists cloudingour vision of Afghanistan, lest we view that country no moreclearly than I first did through the veil of a burka on that busride many ...

Young, urban women in Afghanistan are increasingly ditching ... or a Saudi-style cloth niqab veil that exposes only the eyes. “The new generation would never accept wearing a burqa, because ...

The United Nations Security Council has told Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers that the country cannot achieve peace and ...