A large number of protesters attempted to storm Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone, which houses foreign embassies and the seat of Iraq’s government, early Saturday following reports that an ultranationalist group burned a copy of the Quran in front of the Iraqi Embassy in the Danish capital, Copenhagen. The protest ...
The Iranian foreign minister, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, has called for an emergency meeting of the Organization of Islamic Countries (OIC) following the desecration of the Holy Quran in Sweden. This was the second such act in less than a month, prompting Amir-Abdollahian to propose an urgent ministerial meeting of the ...