Prime Minister Youssef Chahed decided on Friday to ban the niqab for women in Tunisian government offices “for security reasons,” his ...
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena on Sunday announced a ban on face covering, a week after militants carried out coordinated suicide bombings ...
Algerian authorities on Thursday banned women from wearing full-face veils, or niqabs, at work, citing reasons of identification for the decision. ...
Danish police said on Wednesday that they had opened an investigation into a policewoman who embraced a veiled protester wearing a niqab during a ...
Saudi security forces arrested on Saturday the man who robbed a Gulf Bank branch in Hawalli, Kuwait, dressed in a abaya (a black cloak or dress) and ...
Bushra Bibi, the wife of Pakistan’s new Prime Minister Imran Khan, stole the spotlight during the swearing-in-ceremony last week with her white ...
Bushra Bibi, the wife of Pakistan’s new Prime Minister Imran Khan, stole the spotlight with her white niqab during the swearing-in-ceremony last ...
Ever since Boris Johnson, the former British foreign secretary, described burkas as resembling “letterboxes” and “bank robbers&rdquo ...
A 28-year-old woman wearing a niqab on Friday became the first person in Denmark to be fined for violating a new controversial law banning full-face ...
Denmark joined some other European countries in deciding Thursday to ban garments that cover the face, including Islamic veils such as the niqab or ...
On December 11, the American University in Cairo AUC announced a ban on the niqab, the face veil, citing security concerns. “In order to ensure ...
The American University in Cairo (AUC) retracted a decision banning women form wearing the niqab, a full face veil, on its campus premises after ...
A young Egyptian man was caught wearing “niqab” as he went to his girlfriend's house to meet her, but the villagers beat him up and handed ...
The European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday upheld a Belgian ban on wearing the full-face niqab veil in public.The court ruled that the restriction ...
Few women in the Netherlands wear such clothes, but the issue has been high on the agenda for years
Women in Riyadh, considered conservative in comparison to other areas in the kingdom, no longer feel obliged to cover their faces
Bulgaria banned on Friday face-covering hijabs in public, joining a small number of EU countries as the debate rages across Europe
What distinguishes the West from the rest of the world is the principle of respecting freedoms. It is believed in as a culture, and is protected by ...
Footage published by Rudaw English showed a group of 10 ISIS men attempting to escape in disguise as regular Syrian women
The village, on the outskirts of the large town of Manbij, in the northern province of Aleppo, was snatched from ISIS on Friday
Some other ‘women were forced to sleep overnight in a cemetery’ for not wearing what ISIS deems as appropriate
The ban, the first of its kind in the Balkan country, was backed from politicians across the political spectrum in the town of some 70,000 people
The Latvian justice ministry has called the ban on niqabs a “preventive measure” to protect Latvian culture
While the use of niqab is contested within the Muslim world, no government should have the right to impede on the freedom of women
Attorney General Jody Wilson-Raybould said the government has ‘discontinued its application for leave in the case’
With only two weeks left before October 19 legislative elections, a woman's right to wear the niqab has become a hot-button issue
Conservative PM Stephen Harper has been promoting a law to ban the practice of Muslim women wearing face veils while swearing the oath of citizenship
A man who was arrested disguised as a woman near a mosque in Kuwait
The youngest Kardashian sister arrived in Dubai on Monday and stirred up controversy on Instagram by posting a pictured wearing a niqab
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s political party called for a ban on veils in public universities
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