It was 2 a.m. in Turkey, and Jeff Flake had a promise to keep.

NATO members Hungary and Turkey delayed the process of Sweden's accession, with both countries only voting in favor of it this year. All existing members must approve a new country joining the ...

Finland and Sweden allegedly are determined to ... However such incorporations need the unanimous support from all NATO members but apparently Turkey does not have “a positive opinion” of ...

Turkey has acknowledged that Sweden and Finland have taken concrete steps to meet Ankara’s concerns over their bids to join NATO and the three will hold further meetings, Sweden’s chief ...

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, said in 2023 that Sweden had gone into “battle-array for war on the Muslim ...

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Turkey's president suggested that he will attempt to stop Sweden and Finland from joining NATO. Sweden and Finland are soon expected to apply to join the military alliance, a development prompted ...

An anti-Islam refugee who became infamous for publicly burning the Koran in Sweden has been shot dead hours before a court ...

An Iraqi living in Sweden who faced threats after burning the Koran in Stockholm in 2023 died in a shooting Wednesday, ...

Iraqi refugee Salwan Momika, who was shot dead late Wednesday in Sweden, stoked international controversy with his Quran ...