Sweden's SAPO security service lowered its national terrorist threat warning on Friday back to the "elevated" level assessed ...

Sweden's intelligence service said on Friday it was lowering its terror alert level from "high threat" to "elevated threat", ...

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 ...

Sweden’s security service, SAPO, has raised its assessment of the level of threat against Sweden to 4 on a scale of 5 amid mounting international tension over the burning of copies of the Quran ...

"The threat of attacks from violent extremism has been reduced for some time," Sweden's SAPO security police said in a statement. SAPO had raised the threat level to "high", the second highest level, ...

An Iraqi refugee in Sweden who repeatedly burned the Quran in 2023, sparking outrage in Muslim countries, has been shot dead south of Stockholm, investigators said Thursday, with Sweden's prime ...

The burning of a Quran outside a mosque in Sweden on one of the holiest days in Islam sparked outrage Thursday in many Muslim countries and widespread condemnations of the Swedish authorities.

The Swedish Security Service on Tuesday blamed Iran for hacking into a text messaging service last year and sending thousands of messages urging Swedes to take revenge against Quran burners.

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 ...

Sweden has allowed another Quran burning to go ahead. The incident is unlikely to help Sweden's NATO bid overcome Turkish opposition. Meanwhile, Morocco has withdrawn its ambassador in protest.

Salwan Momika, 38, was not the first person to have burnt the Quran in Sweden. However, the Iraqi refugee's Quran burnings were the event that, in the summer of 2023, set the Scandinavian kingdom ...