Protesters angered by the burning of a copy of the Quran at a small protest in Stockholm, Sweden, scale a wall at the Swedish Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, July 20, 2023. Ali Jabar/AP ...

Iraqi at center of Quran burnings in Sweden shot dead before court verdict. Salwan Momika’s 2023 burning of Islam’s holy book drew ire in the Muslim world.

Three men have been arrested in connection with a violent riot following a Quran burning in Sweden. Unrest erupted after an Iraqi anti-Islam activist Salwan Momika set fire to a copy of the ...

After a Quran burning in Sweden in January, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey said that his country would not back Sweden’s accession to NATO as long as the Swedish authorities were ...

Stockholm, Sweden – A copy of the Quran has been desecrated in Sweden’s capital as two men kicked the Muslim holy book and burned several of its pages in front of the Royal Palace amid a heavy ...

Salwan Momika, an Iraqi immigrant who set off protests in Sweden and several Muslim countries when he burned a Quran in Stockholm in 2023, has been killed, the Swedish Prosecution Authority said ...

Sweden has allowed another Quran burning to go ahead. The incident is unlikely to help Sweden's NATO bid overcome Turkish opposition. Meanwhile, Morocco has withdrawn its ambassador in protest.

The Quran burning was condemned by many Muslim-majority countries. A crowd gathered outside the embassy in Baghdad on Thursday after a powerful cleric called for an "angry" protest.