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 ...

A private school in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, prohibited Muslim parents wearing niqabs from entering the school during a parent-teacher meeting on Saturday, September 27, which led to a commotion in the ...

The Hijab Rights Advocacy Initiative has condemned in the strongest terms the recent violent attacks on two Muslim women wearing the hijab and niqab in Ibadan and Lagos. It described the incidents as ...

A would-be assassin who travelled from the US to shoot a man in Birmingham has been found guilty of conspiracy to murder. Birmingham Crown Court previously heard that US citizen Aimee Betro, 45, ...

An American woman disguised in a niqab whose gun jammed in a failed assassination plot has been jailed for 30 years. Aimee Betro tried to shoot shop owner Sikander Ali at point-blank range outside his ...