Iraqis raise copies of the Quran, Muslims' holy book, during a protest in Baghdad on July 22, 2023. (Hadi Mizban/AP) COPENHAGEN, Denmark (CN) — The Danish government is searching for a legal tool to ...

Hundreds of protesters attempted to storm Baghdad's fortified Green Zone Saturday following reports an ultranationalist group burned a copy of the Quran in front of the Iraqi Embassy in Copenhagen.

Sweden has been widely condemned for allowing the burning of the Muslim holy book outside a mosque on Wednesday during Eid al-Adha, a major Islamic holiday. By Alissa J. Rubin and Isabella Kwai ...

In a social media post last week, Iran's "Supreme Leader" Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said the "insult to the Holy Quran in Sweden is a bitter, conspiratorial, dangerous event.

For Muslims, any desecration of the Quran, their holy text, is abhorrent. Under scorching heat Friday, thousands gathered in Baghdad’s Sadr City, a stronghold of influential Iraqi Shiite cleric ...

On Thursday last week, July 20th, there was yet another anti-Muslim protest in Sweden in which an Iraqi-born refugee, Salwan Momika, kicked and stomped on the Holy Quran outside the Iraq Embassy.

In this photo provided by the Iraqi News Agency, followers of the influential Iraqi Shiite cleric and political leader Muqtada Sadr storm the Swedish embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, June 29 ...

The decision comes just days after two men at the heart of a months-long debate over Quran burning set the Islamic holy book aflame on Monday outside Stockholm's Royal Palace.

Both countries are now looking at ways to prohibit, or at least restrict, the destruction of the Quran and other holy texts in public settings. Here’s what to know about the Quran burnings and ...

In June, protesters who support al-Sadr stormed the embassy in Baghdad during daylight hours over that Quran burning. Another day of protests saw thousands of demonstrators on the streets in the ...