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 ...

Model Lily Cole has apologised for wearing a burka in a post to promote her new book on Instagram. Cole, 33, said she “had not read the news” when she posted pictures of herself wearing a blue burka ...

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 ...

Lily Cole posted two pictures of herself wearing a blue burqa to Instagram. Critics slammed the photos as culturally insensitive and ill-timed as the Taliban retook Kabul. Cole apologized and said she ...

The Taliban has ordered Afghan women to wear burkas in public. The burka, which covers the wearer from head to toe and leaves only a person’s eyes exposed, became ...

Tired of burkas that cover the face, urban women under the Taliban's 'gender apartheid' have adopted the abaya robe favoured in Gulf nations Young, urban women in Afghanistan are increasingly ditching ...

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.