Government offices, schools and workplaces fell silent in Sweden at midday on Tuesday in remembrance of the victims of a mass ...

Salwan Momika, the Iraqi refugee notorious for burning copies of the Quran, was shot dead in his apartment in the Swedish city of Södert lje on Wednesday night. Swedish authorities responded to ...

Salwan Momika, an Iraqi immigrant who set off protests when he burned a Quran in 2023, has been killed, the Swedish Prosecution Authority said Thursday morning.

Salwan Momika, the man who made news in 2023 by burning the Holy Quran outside Sweden's Stockholm Central Mosque was shot dead, authorities confirmed. 38-year-old Salwan Momika was fatally shot in an ...

STOCKHOLM, Jan 30 — A man who repeatedly burnt the Quran in 2023 in Sweden, sparking outrage in Muslim countries, has been shot dead, media reported Thursday as police confirmed a man died in a ...

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 ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Salwan Momika speaks in Malmö, Sweden, Sept. 30, 2023. (Johan Nilsson/TT News Agency via AP, File) Police ...

FILE - Salwan Momika speaks in Malmö, Sweden, Sept. 30, 2023. (Johan Nilsson/TT News Agency via AP, File) ...

30 (UPI) --An Iraqi living in Sweden ... in a shooting Wednesday, shortly before a verdict in his trial was about to be revealed. The Koran burning by Salwan Momika in front of a mosque nearly ...

STOCKHOLM — 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 ...