When a woman wearing a blue burqa showed up near the Kabul airport three days after the Taliban fled the capital last November, no one gave her a second glance. But heads turned when she marched up to ...

See more of our coverage in your search results. The burka, which covers the wearer from head to toe and leaves only a person’s eyes exposed, became the group’s staple order on women in Afghanistan ...

Young, urban women in Afghanistan are increasingly ditching the all-enveloping blue burqa with a face mesh that has become a symbol of the Taliban's oppression of women.

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. While driving through Kabul in November, I saw two women leaning ...

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PUL-I-KHUMRI, AFGHANISTAN — The old man in the front seat turned around to deliver a final admonition. “Remember, your name is Nazu,” he said. Blinking through the blue mesh of my burka, I nodded. But ...