Under the Taliban, Sikhs and Hindus have faced severe restrictions, including on their appearances, and have been banned from marking their...

Munira al-Rubaian spreads fresh bed linen in a mock hotel room in the Saudi capital, aiming to land a job in the desert kingdom's growing t...

Historically, women in Afghanistan enjoyed liberty and exercised all rights. It is as early as 1919 that Afghan women had their right to vo...

Policies attempting to regulate or ban the niqab -- and the more extensive burqa covering -- have popped up in a handful of countries acros...

Britain must ban the burqa if it wants to win the battle against Islamic extremism, an ally of French President Nicolas Sarkozy has said.

Darul Uloom, the spiritual home for the arch-conservative Deobandi school of Islam, on Monday asked Muslim countries to work for lifting th...

Deoband: Restriction curbing religious freedom of community members.