Iraq

2023-06-30T12:07:53.000000Z

Shafaq News / The Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Friday that it had received a message from the Swedish government expressing strong disapproval of a refugee of Iraqi origin who burned the Quran in front of the Grand Mosque in the capital city of Stockholm.

Yesterday,

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Iraq

2023-06-30T11:03:56.000000Z

Shafaq News / Hadi al-Amiri, the Secretary General of the Badr Organization and head of Al-Fatah Alliance, proclaimed on Friday that Iran had played a "significant role" in the preservation of Iraq during its participation in the war against ISIS, which seized control of large portions

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Iraq

2023-06-29T21:36:07.000000Z

Shafaq News/ The Iraqi Foreign Ministry has called on the Swedish authorities to extradite Salwan Momika, an Iraqi living in Sweden, who set fire to a copy of the Quran before Stockholm's central mosque.

The action sparked anger among Iraqi components.

Ahmed Al-Sahhaf, the Ministry of

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Iraq

2023-06-29T19:12:26.000000Z

Shafaq News/ The Iraqi Foreign Ministry summoned the Swedish ambassador in Baghdad on Thursday to express strong protest over the burning of a copy of the Holy Qur'an by a refugee of Iraqi origin in Stockholm, the Swedish capital.

In a statement, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

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Iraq

2023-06-29T20:44:25.000000Z

Shafaq News/ Security measures have been significantly intensified around the Swedish embassy in Baghdad on Thursday after al-Sadr's supporters stormed the embassy in Baghdad, successfully breaking through the embassy's gate.

The demonstration came after Swedish police gave Salwan

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Iraq

2023-06-29T18:45:46.000000Z

Shafaq News/ The Office of Iraq's supreme religious authority, Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, sent a letter to United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres addressing the recent incident of burning a copy of the Quran by an Iraqi in Sweden.

The letter published on the Office's official

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