Hundreds of protesters attempted to storm Baghdad's fortified Green Zone Saturday following reports an ultranationalist group burned a copy of the Quran in front of the Iraqi Embassy in Copenhagen.

Iraqi security forces dispersed hundreds of demonstrators who stormed the main gates of the Swedish embassy in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, in response to police in Stockholm sanctioning another ...

With anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim sentiment widespread, there have been more than 500 demonstrations in Denmark in recent months, Mr. Hummelgaard said, including some where the Quran was burned.

Quran-burning incidents in Sweden and Denmark may be a tiny phenomenon, but they have made leaders in northern Europe anxious. “We are currently in the most serious security situation since the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Protester Salwan Momika appears outside the Iraqi Embassy in Stockholm, July 20, 2023, where he plans to burn a copy of the Quran and the Iraqi flag. Share It Has No Blasphemy Laws ...

The Quran burners are helped in their efforts to inflame by Muslim leaders who find their own reasons to stoke the outrage. Experts linked the storming of the Swedish Embassy in Baghdad last month ...

Playing such a character is emotionally draining. I remember that during our workshops, we were taught to read the Quran Shareef, and I continued to offer Namaaz every day while we were filming.