A man who ignited violent protests after burning the Quran has been shot dead in Sweden, local media report. Salwan Momika, 38, was reportedly killed in an apartment in Södertälje, Stockholm ...

Salwan Momika, notorious for his provocative acts of desecrating and burning the Quran in Sweden, was fatally shot in his apartment building on the outskirts of Stockholm on Wednesday evening.

Over recent months, relations between Turkey and Sweden have been exacerbated by a series of Quran-burning rallies in Stockholm ANKARA, August 1. /TASS/. An unidentified man attacked Sweden’s ...

ALBAWABA - Sweden has arrested five people suspected of planning to commit terrorist acts in response to the incident of January's burning copy of Quran in the capital, Stockholm. Sweden arrests ...

A 30-minute-long Quran-burning ... Swedish and international media present at the site, as well as 200 spectators. They stayed for the entire rally and then dispersed. The police detained a man ...

Most Swedes also disagree with the Quran burnings. More than half of the respondents to a recent poll by Sweden's public broadcaster SVT said they favor a ban on burning holy books such as the Quran.

Sweden's admittance to NATO is now in jeopardy after Swedish police issued a permit for a protest in which the burning of the Quran, the holy book of Muslims, was set alight.

The European Union has strongly condemned the recent Quran burning incident that took place in Sweden. In a statement, the European Union described the act as offensive, disrespectful, and a clear act ...