(JNS) Bar-Ilan University said Thursday that it has barred a student from entering campus after she violated school policy by wearing a niqab—a long garment worn by some Muslim women that covers their ...

Police in Kyrgyzstan have issued hefty fines and official warnings to hundreds of women wearing the niqab, a face veil that is banned in the Muslim-majority country. At least 29 women were each fined ...

Kyrgyzstan's official Muslim governing body has come out in favour of a government ban on full-body veils known as the niqab, as Central Asian officials seek to combat growing Islamist influence, ...