Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A woman wearing a traditional niqab. (Photo: Getty) An 18-year-old Muslim student in Germany can no longer legally wear the veil ...

KATTANKUDY, Sri Lanka (AP) — As Sri Lanka’s long civil war ended in this once-contested region along its eastern coast, Muslim women eager to show their piousness began wearing the black niqab veil to ...

Nicolas Sarkozy wants to ban women from wearing face veils in public. Under the policy proposed by the French President, Muslim women would not be permitted to wear the niqab, which reveals only the ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. In a new bid to curtail Islamist influence in society, the Egyptian ...

PARIS — The world’s first ban on Islamic face veils took effect Monday in France, meaning that women may bare their breasts in Cannes but not cover their faces on the Champs-Elysees. Two veiled women ...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — A Saudi online newspaper says Oman is proposing that women be banned from wearing face veils when driving. Al-Watan said Tuesday Oman made the proposal at a meeting of Gulf ...

TORONTO (AP) — A female witness can wear a religious veil that covers her face while testifying in court in certain circumstances, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled Thursday in a split decision in a ...