Turkey will lift a historic ban on female officers wearing the Islamic headscarf in the officially secular country’s armed forces, state media said Wednesday. The military was the final Turkish ...

President calls government meeting to address finding that Muslim Brotherhood poses ‘threat to national cohesion’ Emmanuel Macron’s centrist political party has suggested banning girls under 15 from ...

As the new school year gets under way in Austria, a headscarf ban for girls under 14 has sparked protests on the streets and ...

Turkey has for the first time allowed policewomen to wear the Islamic headscarf as part of their uniform, according to a ruling published in the official gazette Saturday. Women serving in the police ...

Muslim women who wear a head covering often feel they represent their entire faith based on first impressions. This is regularly described as both a blessing and a burden. While being a flag-bearer of ...

MANTES-LA-JOLIE: On the outskirts of Paris, 44-year-old French Muslim weightlifter Sylvie Eberena concentrates hard and pushes 80 kilos of bar and weights clean over her veiled head. The single mother ...

The headscarf debate goes to the very heart of Turkey's complex identity. It is a young democracy that is struggling to balance the demands of an increasingly prosperous but pious Muslim population ...