This article explains what it means for women who CHOOSE to wear the niqab! The niqab, a face-covering veil worn by some ...

Women attending private universities in Afghanistan must wear an abaya robe and niqab covering most of the face, the Taliban have ordered, and classes must be segregated by sex - or at least ...

A school dinner lady turned terror sympathiser who demanded her mugshot showed her in her face-covering niqab has been jailed ...

CAIRO, Egypt (CNN) -- There's more to wearing the "niqab" -- the austere, all-covering veil favored by ultra-religious Muslim women -- than meets the eye. A recent declaration by a leading ...

Some face coverings, including motorbike helmets, are exempted from the French ban. The woman, identified only by the initials SAS, took her case to the European Court in 2011.