Hundreds of Iraqi protestors stormed the Swedish embassy in Baghdad and set it on fire ahead of a planned burning of the Quran in Sweden, news agency Reuters reported, adding that no staff member was harmed during the agitation.
Iraq’s foreign ministry has condemned the incident and said in a statement the Iraqi government had directed security forces to investigate and identify the perpetrators and bring them to justice, the report added.
The demonstration was called by supporters of Shi’ite cleric Muqtada Sadr to protest the second planned Quran burning in Sweden in weeks, according to posts in a popular Telegram group linked the influential cleric and other pro-Sadr media, Reuters said.
Hundreds of Iraqi protestors stormed the Swedish embassy in Baghdad and set it on fire ahead of a planned burning of the Quran in Sweden, news agency Reuters reported, adding that no staff member was harmed during the agitation.
Iraq’s foreign ministry has condemned the incident and said in a statement the Iraqi government had directed security forces to investigate and identify the perpetrators and bring them to justice, the report added.
The demonstration was called by supporters of Shi’ite cleric Muqtada Sadr to protest the second planned Quran burning in Sweden in weeks, according to posts in a popular Telegram group linked the influential cleric and other pro-Sadr media, Reuters said.
Hundreds of Iraqi protestors stormed the Swedish embassy in Baghdad and set it on fire ahead of a planned burning of the Quran in Sweden, news agency Reuters reported, adding that no staff member was harmed during the agitation.
Iraq’s foreign ministry has condemned the incident and said in a statement the Iraqi government had directed security forces to investigate and identify the perpetrators and bring them to justice, the report added.
The demonstration was called by supporters of Shi’ite cleric Muqtada Sadr to protest the second planned Quran burning in Sweden in weeks, according to posts in a popular Telegram group linked the influential cleric and other pro-Sadr media, Reuters said.
Hundreds of Iraqi protestors stormed the Swedish embassy in Baghdad and set it on fire ahead of a planned burning of the Quran in Sweden, news agency Reuters reported, adding that no staff member was harmed during the agitation.
Iraq’s foreign ministry has condemned the incident and said in a statement the Iraqi government had directed security forces to investigate and identify the perpetrators and bring them to justice, the report added.
The demonstration was called by supporters of Shi’ite cleric Muqtada Sadr to protest the second planned Quran burning in Sweden in weeks, according to posts in a popular Telegram group linked the influential cleric and other pro-Sadr media, Reuters said.
Hundreds of Iraqi protestors stormed the Swedish embassy in Baghdad and set it on fire ahead of a planned burning of the Quran in Sweden, news agency Reuters reported, adding that no staff member was harmed during the agitation.
Iraq’s foreign ministry has condemned the incident and said in a statement the Iraqi government had directed security forces to investigate and identify the perpetrators and bring them to justice, the report added.
The demonstration was called by supporters of Shi’ite cleric Muqtada Sadr to protest the second planned Quran burning in Sweden in weeks, according to posts in a popular Telegram group linked the influential cleric and other pro-Sadr media, Reuters said.
Hundreds of Iraqi protestors stormed the Swedish embassy in Baghdad and set it on fire ahead of a planned burning of the Quran in Sweden, news agency Reuters reported, adding that no staff member was harmed during the agitation.
Iraq’s foreign ministry has condemned the incident and said in a statement the Iraqi government had directed security forces to investigate and identify the perpetrators and bring them to justice, the report added.
The demonstration was called by supporters of Shi’ite cleric Muqtada Sadr to protest the second planned Quran burning in Sweden in weeks, according to posts in a popular Telegram group linked the influential cleric and other pro-Sadr media, Reuters said.
Hundreds of Iraqi protestors stormed the Swedish embassy in Baghdad and set it on fire ahead of a planned burning of the Quran in Sweden, news agency Reuters reported, adding that no staff member was harmed during the agitation.
Iraq’s foreign ministry has condemned the incident and said in a statement the Iraqi government had directed security forces to investigate and identify the perpetrators and bring them to justice, the report added.
The demonstration was called by supporters of Shi’ite cleric Muqtada Sadr to protest the second planned Quran burning in Sweden in weeks, according to posts in a popular Telegram group linked the influential cleric and other pro-Sadr media, Reuters said.
Hundreds of Iraqi protestors stormed the Swedish embassy in Baghdad and set it on fire ahead of a planned burning of the Quran in Sweden, news agency Reuters reported, adding that no staff member was harmed during the agitation.
Iraq’s foreign ministry has condemned the incident and said in a statement the Iraqi government had directed security forces to investigate and identify the perpetrators and bring them to justice, the report added.
The demonstration was called by supporters of Shi’ite cleric Muqtada Sadr to protest the second planned Quran burning in Sweden in weeks, according to posts in a popular Telegram group linked the influential cleric and other pro-Sadr media, Reuters said.
