Five men were arrested just hours after the shooting but were all released two days later. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan even tied the Quran burnings to Stockholm’s bid to join NATO, suggesting he would hold up the process if Swedish authorities kept granting permits for the ...

Five men arrested in Sweden over the killing of Salwan Momika, who repeatedly burned copies of the Quran in 2023, have been ...

Swedish court sentences anti-Islam activist to suspended sentence and a fine over Quran burning. Another activist who burned the Quran was shot dead last week.

Najem has appealed the verdict. The two men were accused of desecrating the Quran, including by burning it, while making derogatory remarks about Muslims — on two of the occasions outside a Stockholm ...

Momika’s Quran burnings in 2023 sparked violent protests across the Middle East too. A large crowd stormed the Swedish embassy in Baghdad, while Iraq expelled Sweden’s ambassador, severed ...

STOCKHOLM, June 30. /TASS/. Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson called for calm at a press conference on Friday following the storming of the Swedish embassy in Baghdad in response to the ...

Quran burnings have also been happening in Denmark. But the extent of Sweden's freedom of expression laws means Swedish authorities have found the controversial public displays much harder to stop.

An Iraqi man who publicly burned the Quran several times in Sweden has been killed, according to Swedish authorities. Swedish media reported that he was killed in a shooting in a nearby city. Salwan ...

STOCKHOLM (AP) — An Iraqi man who carried out several Quran burnings in Sweden has died, a court in Stockholm said Thursday. Swedish media reported that he was killed in a shooting in a nearby city.

Iraq’s National Security Adviser and the Swedish Chargé d’Affaires discussed on Monday the reopening of the Swedish embassy ...

In response to the Quran burnings, protesters stormed Sweden’s Embassy in Baghdad and carried out a firebomb attack on the Swedish diplomatic mission in Beirut. Sweden eventually raised its ...