Joining millions of Muslim women worldwide, Indian women in Uttar Pradesh capital Lucknow marked World Hijab Day for the first time with a special celebration on Sunday, February 1.

More British women are Gathering to join ISIL Takfiri group in Iraq and Syria, with many apparently involved in torturing and even ordering the execution of Iraqi and Syrian girls captured as sex slaves, a report revealed.

A sports official in Oman has called on Muslim countries to protest collectively against the ban on Hijab in some sports events.

The Qatar women's basketball team forfeited a game at the Asian Games on Wednesday after being refused permission to wear the hijab, saying they were taking a stand against what they say is a discriminatory policy against Muslim women.

Startling details have surfaced of British female jihadists forcing captured Iraqi women into sexual slavery at brothels run by militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), British media reported Thursday.

Ayatollah Makarem-Shirazi has met with group of women employees of the municipal government of Tehran, where he discussed cultural activities in the Iranian capital.

A recent survey has found that veiled British Muslim women have more positive body image, less affected by beauty standards depicted in media and place less importance on appearance than women who don't wear hijab.

Members of Malaysia's largest political party United Malays National Organization have called for allowing hijab for Malaysia Airlines stewardesses and an alcohol ban, calls that were endorsed by state officials and MAS managers.

The al-Qaeda-affiliated Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) released pictures from their military Camp in Mosul of Iraq, showing men and children posing and training with guns. ISIL terrorist group have targeted children for recruitment by providing military training in school settings through free schooling campaigns that include weapons training and giving them dangerous tasks, including suicide bombing missions.

Thirty percent of the Gazans killed by Israeli offensive against the blockaded sliver are women and children, a report says.

A leading Muslim organisation in Sri Lanka is conducting a campaign to persuade Muslim women to give up black abaya and instead wear coloured ones.

Shiite Muslims throughout the world, including Iran, held ceremonies on Sunday to celebrate the birth anniversary of Hazart Fatima-Zahra (SA) and Women's or Mother's Day.

The Palestinian ministry of prisoners' affairs said that Israel has kidnapped more than 10,000 Palestinian women since 1968, 850 of them during Al-Aqsa intifada, appealing to the international community and women's rights groups to pay attention to the issue of Palestinian female prisoners.

Israeli occupation forces (IOF) and Jewish settlers have killed 1337 Palestinian children since the Aqsa intifada in late September 2000 until late 2010, the Ahrar center's research and media unit said in a documentary report.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called for designing a roadmap on role of women in salvation of the mankind.