Taliban fighters passed out hijabs and long scarves to girls in Herat, Afghanistan as they returned to school with boys after the Taliban's takeover of the country, the Associated Press reported. Most ...

Iran Anti-Hijab Protests: Iran has seen multiple eruptions of protests over the past years, many of them fueled by anger over economic difficulties. A young woman climbs to the top of a car in the ...

Wania Tayyab, 15, remembers the first time she wore the hijab, on a trip to Five Below when she was 12 or 13. “My mom said, ‘You’re growing, why don’t you try wearing hijab?’” Tayyab says she was ...

On January 8, 1936, Reza Shah Pahlavi issued a decree known as "Kashf-e hijab," or "unveiling," which eliminated veils from Iranian working society in a bid to modernize the country. The Shah was ...

Amnesty International says dozens of women are at risk of "long jail terms" for protesting against the compulsory hijab in Iran. Iranian authorities have arrested dozens of women who have protested ...

The Police Department agreed to change its policy and allow religious people to be photographed in head coverings so long as their faces were left unobstructed. By Alan Feuer Two years ago, two Muslim ...

The city of Long Beach, California, is facing a federal lawsuit after one of its police officers “forcibly” removed a Muslim woman’s religious headscarf following her arrest. Kirsty Powell, 33, was ...

For many Iranian women, it’s an image that would have been unthinkable just a decade ago, said Fatemeh Shams, who grew up in Mashhad. “When you see Mashhad women coming to the streets and burning ...