Sweden launched its first military communications satellite in August last year, the government said on Friday, the first of more planned military surveillance satellites. The GNA-3 test satellite was launched from California in the U.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, said in 2023 that Sweden had gone into “battle-array for war on the Muslim world” by supporting “the criminal”, and that “all Islamic scholars agree that those who desecrate the Koran deserved the most severe punishment”.

For the first time since officially becoming a NATO member in March 2024, Sweden has taken a major step in its international military role. On January 18, 2025, Sweden deployed a mechanized battalion to Latvia,

Russia is "the main actor" in hybrid attacks on the alliance, said a senior NATO official following a spate of incidents.

NATO is deploying eyes in the sky and on the Baltic Sea to protect cables and pipelines that stitch together the nine countries with shores on Baltic waters.

Swedish authorities have seized a ship suspected of damaging a data cable running under the Baltic Sea to Latvia. Prosecutors said an initial investigation pointed to sabotage, and an inquiry has been launched involving Sweden's police, military, and coast guard.

Sweden is investigating damage to a data cable linked to Latvia, the latest breach in the Baltic Sea region where European authorities are on high alert.

Swedish authorities have seized a ship over the “aggravated sabotage” of an undersea fibre-optic cable linking Latvia with a strategically important island in Sweden.

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Salwan Momika was set to stand trial over hate incitement charges on Thursday.

An anti-Islam refugee who became infamous for publicly burning the Koran in Sweden has been shot dead just hours before a court verdict over his controversial stunts. Swedish police said Iraqi citizen Salwan Momika, 38, was killed on Wednesday night in an apartment near Stockholm while recording a live online video on TikTok.