Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pauline Hanson wore a burka in the Senate chamber in Canberra - Mick Tsikas/AAP Australian right-wing politician Pauline Hanson ...

A viral Instagram trend featuring an "Afghan makeup transition" ending with a woman wearing a burqa is drawing attention to ...

More women are wearing the burqa since the Taliban’s return to power even though there is no official national policy on it – Copyright AFP Javed TANVEER The ...

It’s hard to believe that women who are hidden under a burqa retain a sense of style, but they do. This year’s trendy color for burqas is a pale sky blue. A few years back it was a coppery brown. The ...

2002-02-09 04:00:00 PDT Kabul, Afghanistan-- In a photo shop on the busy Karte Parwan street in downtown Kabul, a woman wrapped in a light-blue burqa stared at me. A minute passed, but she kept ...

I bought a burqa in a marketplace while covering the war in Afghanistan. When I pulled the cowling at the top over my head, to see what a women who wore a burqa might see, it emphasized how that dim ...