praising Al-Babtain’s efforts in raising Kuwait's status in cultural and literary circles. The name of the Abdul Aziz Saud Al-Babtain Cultural Foundation became widely known throughout the Arab world, ...

It's been almost 50 years since the Bucks reluctantly parted with superstar Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in a trade that made headlines across the sports landscape. Though a couple of the players Milwaukee ...

The Tennessee Titans have an intriguing choice at No. 1 in the 2025 NFL Draft: they could take a quarterback to take over for Will Levis, or they could take the best player available and wait for ...

Prepare for a full week of this. Everyone is thinking the same thing, by the way. There’s got to be a way to get Abdul Carter in the draft. He’s a generational pass rusher, he’s from Philadelphia, and ...

Salwan Momika, an Iraqi man who sparked outrage by staging Quran-burning protests in Sweden in 2023, has been shot dead, according to Swedish authorities. A spokesperson for Sweden’s prosecutor ...

Salwan Momika, known for burning the Quran in Sweden, has been shot dead ... Salwan Momika, from the Al-Hamdaniya district of Qaraqosh in northern Iraq's Nineveh province, was raised as an ...

In 2023, Momika set fire to a copy of the Quran, Islam's holy book ... 2023, during the Eid al-Adha holiday. Salwan Momika protests outside a mosque in Stockholm on June 28, 2023, during the ...

Amir Daftari is a Newsweek reporter based in London, specializing in global affairs with a focus on the Middle East. He joined Newsweek in 2024 from the United Nations and has previously worked at ...

sparked waves of outrage throughout parts of the Muslim world in 2023 when he burned a copy of the Quran outside a mosque during the Islamic holiday of Eid al-Adha. Videos of Quran burnings by a ...

An Iraqi refugee in Sweden has been killed hours before a court ruling on his repeated burning of the Quran in anti-Islam demonstrations last year. Police announced on Thursday that they had made ...

A man who sparked violent protests after burning the Quran has been shot dead in Sweden. Salwan Momika was killed in an apartment in Södertälje, Stockholm, on Wednesday evening, prosecutors told ...

Syria’s de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa has been named president for a transitional phase and the country’s constitution has been suspended, the Syrian state news agency (SANA) reported.