MOSCOW
\nRussia\u2019s southern Dagestan region on Wednesday issued a temporary ban against wearing the niqab in the Muslim-majority republic, citing security reasons after a recent attack against churches and synagogues.
\nThis veil \u2014 which hides the entirety of a woman\u2019s face with the exception of the eyes \u2014 is \u201ctemporarily prohibited until the elimination of existing threats,\u201d said Dagestan\u2019s highest religious body.
\nLast month, gunmen simultaneously attacked two churches, two synagogues and a police checkpoint in two cities in Dagestan, killing 22 people.
\nThe attacks came just three months after Daesh fighters killed more than 140 in an assault on a Moscow concert hall, the deadliest terror attack in Russia for almost two decades.
\nFew details have surfaced about the identities and motivations of the attackers in Dagestan.
\nThe incidents had echoes of the kind of insurgent violence that struck the North Caucasus during the 1990s and 2000s, however, the Kremlin has dismissed fears of a renewed wave of violent unrest.
\nIn the 1990s, Moscow fought two wars for control of the neighboring Chechnya region, with President Vladimir Putin touted his success in quashing the insurgency at the start of his presidency.
\nMilitants from Dagestan are known to have traveled to join Daesh in Syria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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