Afghanistan's Taliban rulers have ordered all Afghan women to wear the all-covering burka in public. The acting minister for the Taliban's Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention ...

Taliban bring back the burka: Afghanistan's supreme leader says women must wear all-covering head-to-toe garment once again. Taliban leader orders all women to wear head-to-toe coverings and burka ...

The burqa persists even in the oppressive heat of Afghan summers. I, like most, expected the end of the Taliban rule in Afghanistan would also see the end of the burqa. But the full-body covering ...

Islamabad — The Taliban announced Saturday that an all-covering head-to-toe burqa will be mandatory in public for women in Afghanistan, the latest in a set of curbs the Islamist group has ...

The Taliban says women in Afghanistan must wear head-to-toe clothing in public The decree, which calls for women in Afghanistan to show only their eyes and recommends they wear the burqa, evoked ...

1 of 5 | A burqa-clad woman and her child wait behind fences in Kabul, Afghanistan, on September 17, 2009. The Taliban has ruled that all women in the country must now wear the full-body covering.

We Are No Better than the Taliban If We Ban the Burqa. Published Sep 07, 2017 at 6:13 AM EDT. A woman wearing a burqa walks in The Hague on December 1, 2014.

(Meanwhile, the Taliban burqa decree comes just after a leaked draft decision by the U.S. Supreme Court that would effectively end federal protections for reproductive rights for women in the ...

When the Taliban last ruled Afghanistan, a five-year reign that came to a close in 2001, women risked being whipped by Taliban enforcers if they dared venture out without donning a burqa, the full ...

The Taliban and their burqa decree don’t represent Islam. The burqa – or veil as they like to call it – is now being forced on Afghan women in a clear symbol of oppression and misogyny.

The Taliban's restrictions do not specifically mention the burka, leading many young women to wear abaya robes and headscarfs that cover less of the face. Photo: AFP An Afghan woman shops for a ...

This photograph taken on Feb. 25, shows Afghan burka-clad women and their children waiting to be inoculated during the "outreach vaccination" program.