A n Iraqi refugee in Sweden who repeatedly burned the Koran in 2023, sparking outrage in Muslim countries, has been shot dead ...

Under a heavy police presence, Salwan Momika, a 37-year-old who fled to Sweden several years ago, on Wednesday stomped on the Koran before setting several pages alight in front of Stockholm’s ...

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 ...

An Iraqi man who staged Quran burnings in Sweden was shot dead hours before he was set to receive a verdict on Thursday in a trial tied to the desecrations of Islam’s holy book that drew ...

"Within 10 days I will burn the Iraqi flag and the Koran in front of Iraq's embassy in Stockholm," Momika told a Swedish newspaper late Thursday. The Koran burning, coinciding with the start of ...

STOCKHOLM/COPENHAGEN, Oct 26 (Reuters) - Sweden's migration agency said on Thursday it had decided to deport an Iraqi man who burned copies of the Koran, the Muslim holy book, but that the order ...

Man Found Guilty of Hate Crime Over Sweden Koran Burnings STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -A Swedish court found an anti-Islam campaigner guilty on Monday of hate crimes involving staging public burnings of ...

Sweden's domestic security service raised its terrorism alert level as a result of the burnings, while neighbouring Denmark, which also saw a spate of Koran burnings, tightened its legislation to ...

STOCKHOLM, July 6 (Reuters) - (This July 6 story has been refiled to say that Sweden government is considering changing the law to allow police to stop Koran burnings in public, not making it ...

Södertälje (Sweden) (AFP) – An Iraqi refugee in Sweden who repeatedly burned the Koran in 2023, sparking outrage in Muslim countries, has been shot dead, investigators said Thursday ...

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -Swedish prosecutors said on Wednesday they would put two men on trial for setting fire to the Koran in a series of incidents last year that prompted outrage in the Muslim ...