Some 125,000 flag-waving Turks, mostly women, denounced the Islamic-rooted government on Saturday over its plans to lift a decades-old ban on Islamic head scarves in universities — a move the foreign ...

ANKARA, Turkey – Parliament has voted to amend the constitution to lift a decades-old ban on Islamic head scarves at Turkey's universities, despite fierce opposition from the secular establishment.

On one of the holiest nights of Ramadan, Marwa Atik chose a crowded Southern California mosque to debut her latest creation. It was just after midnight when the 20-year-old walked into the Islamic ...

Turkish women stand near their homes in the Turkish border town of Ceylanpinar, Sanliurfa province, close to the border with Syria, November 20, 2012. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh By Humeyra Pamuk ...

ANKARA, Turkey – A bill that would lift a decades-old ban on women wearing head scarves at universities was submitted to Turkey's Parliament Tuesday. The move worried secularists, who fear the ...

SAINT-OUEN, France — The first day of school is never easy. But the start of classes Thursday was especially tough for French Muslim mothers such as Nissia. As a new ban on Islamic head scarves in ...

INKSTER, Mich. — When Raghdaa Ali attempted to walk into a cash advance store one day last summer to get a money order, an employee pointed to the headscarf that she wore and said, "You need to take ...

Nominee for best globalization sentence of the week: “If you don’t shake hands with men, you can’t be a part of the Danish Parliament,” said Hamid El Mousti, a member of Copenhagen’s city council. The ...

SAN BERNARDINO (CBS) — Students at California State University San Bernardino were challenged to wear traditional Muslim head scarves this week in a campaign that many people hoped would change ...

City court workers in an Atlanta suburb will undergo sensitivity training and post courtroom dress code signs after police arrested a Muslim woman for refusing to remove her headscarf before attending ...