Fatima Mahmoud* decided to wear a niqab, a face veil, for the first time this summer while getting on the Tube in London. A man on the platform at Whitechapel station stared and shook his head, before ...

ROME (Reuters) -Italy's ruling Brothers of Italy party put forward legislation on Wednesday to ban the burqa and niqab in public spaces, part of a broader bill aimed at combating what it called ...

The Hijab Rights Advocacy Initiative (HRAI) has strongly condemned the recent attacks on two niqabi-wearing Muslim women in Lagos and Ibadan. The group said the assaults stripped the women of their ...

Don't you think I know exactly where I stand This world is forcing me to hold your hand 'Cause I'm just a girl, oh little 'ol me Don't let me out of your sight I'm just a girl, all pretty and petite ...

KISMAYO, Somalia — Jubaland Security forces in Kismayo, a port city in southern Somalia, have confiscated hundreds of Islamic face veils, commonly known as niqabs, from female residents, according to ...

Earlier reports said that the fatwa department of the Muftiate of Dagestan plans to specify separately when a local ban on wearing the niqab can be issued MAKHACHKALA, July 3. /The Muftiate of ...

Defence Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale has stirred controversy after he warned Kenyan Muslim women who do not wear a head covering to find another country to live in. The CS was speaking at Sir Ali ...

Afghan women will have to wear the Islamic face veil for the first time in decades under a decree passed by the country's ruling Taliban militants. Any woman who refuses to comply and ignores official ...