Mersedeh Shahinkar knows the cost of freedom. The Iranian mother and activist, now living in California, carries the permanent scar of the Islamic Republic’s brutality. She is blind in her right eye, ...

There may be a RINO on the loose in North Carolina. Niqab-wearing LaKeshia M. Alston is running as the only Republican for ...

Live music is blaring on the streets of Tehran, women are ditching their mandatory hijabs and young people are dancing in cafes, as authorities allow a degree of social freedom not seen since the ...

Minnesota Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan is facing a firestorm of criticism from conservative figures and political commentators after appearing in a hijab during a visit to a Somali market in ...

WASHINGTON — Minnesota’s lieutenant governor Peggy Flanagan donned a hijab to express solidarity with Somalis in a local TV appearance amid federal and congressional investigations into fraudsters in ...

Minnesota Lt. Gov. and U.S. Senate candidate Peggy Flanagan was seen on a Somali TV station wearing a hijab at a mall, as a widespread fraud scandal implicating some Somalis plagues the state. "The ...

Iranian girls in Laleh Park, central Tehran. One of the city’s most well-known and socially and politically significant public spaces, it is frequented mainly by students as a place to gather and ...

KABUL (Pajhwok): A jirga of Pashtun elders in Chaman has urged Pakistan to reopen the Spin Boldak–Chaman crossing to resolve the problems of thousands of stranded passengers and cargo vehicles, a ...

The Supreme Court Bar Association has strongly condemned the conduct of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for allegedly forcibly pulling down the hijab of a woman doctor during a public ceremony in ...

The curtain came down on the winter session of Parliament, which saw the passage of a few high-impact legislation, including the G Ram G Bill and the SHANTI Bill, and some politically-charged debates, ...

Veteran lyricist Javed Akhtar, who has strongly criticised Nitish Kumar foe pulling off a woman doctor's hijab at an event in Patna, has once again bashed the Bihar CM and called the act 'indecent'.

Following a row over Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar allegedly pulling down a Muslim woman's niqab, Samajwadi Party leader Sumaiya Rana declined an interview with a Pakistani news channel. She said ...