JAKARTA, Indonesia — When the head of a prominent Islamic university in Indonesia banned the face-concealing niqab headdress on campus this month, calling it out of step with the country’s true ...

Kyrgyzstan has become the latest country in Muslim-majority Central Asia to ban the Islamic niqab, a long garment that covers the body, hair, and face, except the eyes. Effective February 1, the ban ...

France's niqab ban violates the human rights of Muslim women and risks "confining them to their homes," the United Nations Human Rights Committee said Tuesday. France's niqab ban violates the human ...

What clothes women are allowed to wear and whether or not men can have bushy beards are being debated again in Muslim-majority Central Asia, this time in Kyrgyzstan. The parliament of the former ...

LAGOS, May 4 (Reuters) - (This May 4 story has been corrected to change the name of Muslim face veil in the headline and paragraph 1, reword paragraph 1 to clarify that not all Muslim women wear ...

Italy's ruling party proposes banning the burqa and niqab Violators would face fines of 300-3,000 euros France was first European country to introduce blanket ban ROME, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Italy's ...