At least eight Afghans were shot dead and dozens wounded on Wednesday in clashes between police and demonstrators protesting over the burning of the Quran at a US-run military base, officials said.

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Led by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, the US has apologised to the people of Afghanistan on the 'inappropriate treatment' of the holy Quran by American soldiers at the Bagram Airbase in a central Afg

The United Nations on Wednesday said the UN-mandated International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) will soon conclude probe into the 'inappropriate' handling of the Muslim religious material in Kabul

Hundreds of Afghans threw stones, shouted ‘death to America’ and torched tyres, pouring onto streets on Wednesday for a second day of angry protests against NATO troops for burning copies of the Qura

Iran, which gave contracts to publishers in China to print copies of the Quran, has said the books are full of spelling mistakes, the Mehr news agency reported.

Several Iranian publishers had asked f

Over 100 people have died in violence in Afghanistan's southern city of Kandahar, sparked by protests against a US pastor's burning of the holy Quran, officials said on Sunday.

Fighting was going on

New York: The pastor of a Florida church who threatened to burn the Quran on the 9/11 anniversary to protest the 2001 terror attacks in the US, has been hit with a whopping $180,000 bill as cost of se

Three people in Jammu and Kashmir's Mendhar town were killed on Wednesday following clashes between the police and a crowd protesting the alleged desecration of the Quran in the US.

An Australian has posted a video of himself burning the Quran and the Bible on video sharing website YouTube, drawing widespread criticism, a media report said on Monday.

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A US Pastor, who has drawn global condemnation over his plans to burn copies of the Quran on the ninth anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks, has announced his decision to abandon the propose