Several Arab countries including Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Kuwait denounced the incident. Sweden and Finland applied last year to join NATO following Russia's invasion of Ukraine but all 30 member states must approve their bids.
Protests in Stockholm on Saturday against Turkey and Sweden's bid to join NATO, including the burning of a copy of the Koran, sharply heightened tensions with Turkey at a time when the Nordic country needs Ankara's backing to gain entry to the military alliance. "We condemn in the strongest possible terms the vile attack on our holy book .
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Bashar Al-Assad, the president of Syria, received the United Arab Emirates’ top diplomat in Damascus on Wednesday in the late