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 ...

STOCKHOLM (AP) — An Iraqi man who carried out several Quran burnings in Sweden has been killed in a shooting near Stockholm, authorities said Thursday. Salwan Momika, 38, staged several burnings and ...

A German court has sentenced two Afghan nationals to several years in prison for plotting an attack on the Swedish parliament ...

A Swedish man who publicly desecrated and burned copies of the Quran has been found guilty of hate crimes, days after another man facing the same charges was killed. Salwan Najem was convicted by ...

A German court has sentenced two Afghan men to several years in prison for planning an attack on the Swedish parliament and ...

Counter-demonstrators and a large police force on site at Gustav Adolfs torg in Malmö, Sweden, at a public gathering where the organizer intended to burn a Quran. May 3, 2024. (Johan Nilsson/TT News ...

A Swedish court on Monday found an anti-Islam campaigner guilty of hate crimes for organizing public burnings of the Quran after. Due to the Quran burnings and his disparaging remarks about Muslims in ...

Sweden is on edge, as almost weekly demonstrations about the Quran trigger reactions across the country and diplomatic protests from abroad. In early September, police in the southern city of ...

The Stockholm district court stated that both Najem and Momika desecrated the Quran while making offensive remarks about Islam, its religious leaders, and mosque activities. According to Sweden ...

A man who repeatedly burnt the Quran in 2023 in Sweden, sparking outrage in Muslim countries, has been shot dead, media reported today as police confirmed a man died in a shooting the day before.

When Swedish Public Radio reported on his death, a majority of the posted comments were positive: “Serves him right,” “Rest ...

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has condemned act of desecration of the Holy Quran by a right-wing extremist in Sweden. In a tweet today, he said no words are enough to adequately condemn the abhorrable ...