Baghdad protest

Sweden on Thursday summoned Iraq’s charge d’affaires in Stockholm after protesters, angered by a planned Quran burning, stormed and set fires inside the country’s embassy compound in Baghdad.“The attacks against the Swedish embassy in Iraq…

Hundreds of protesters stormed the Swedish embassy in central Baghdad in the early hours of Thursday morning, scaling its walls and setting it on fire in protest against the expected burning of a Qur’an in Sweden. All Baghdad embassy…

Last Updated: July 20, 2023, 07:38 ISTProtesters climb a fence as they gather near the Swedish embassy in Baghdad hours after the embassy was stormed and set on fire ahead of an expected Quran burning in Stockholm, in Baghdad, July 20.…

Iraq’s powerful cleric Moqtada al-Sadr ordered his followers to end their protests in central Baghdad on Tuesday and apologised to Iraqis after 22 people were killed in clashes between rival Shi’ite Muslim groups. ”This is not a revolution…