According to Pope Francis, a bid to kill him during a 2021 visit to Iraq was foiled following a tip from British intelligence ...

Pope Francis waves to a crowd of supporters in Erbil, Iraq, in 2021. Two attempts to assassinate Pope Francis when he made a ...

Security forces thwarted a pair of assassination attempts against Pope Francis — including a suicide bomber — during his March 2021 visit to Iraq, the pontiff shared in his new memoir.

The first-ever Iraq visit by a pope could've ended disastrously, but a foiled assassination plot has enabled Pope Francis to write about the event in retrospect. "Almost everyone advised me ...

Two attempted attacks on Pope Francis, including one by a suicide bomber, were foiled during his landmark trip to Iraq in 2021, the pontiff has revealed in an autobiography. The pope wrote that he ...

Pope Francis revealed that he escaped two assassination attempts during his visit to Iraq in March 2021, including one involving a young woman who was believed to be attempting a suicide bombing.

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis has revealed he was the target of an attempted suicide bombing during his visit to Iraq ...

Francis' visit to Mosul was a key moment during his Iraq trip as Iraq's second-largest city had been under the control of Islamic State from 2014 to 2017. The pope visited the ruins of four ...

In the Italian excerpts, Francis recalled his historic March 2021 trip to Iraq, the first ever by a pope. COVID-19 was still raging and security concerns were high, especially in Mosul.