ROME — Pope Francis turned 88 on Tuesday and marked the occasion with revelations that he almost didn’t make it. According to excerpts of his upcoming autobiography, suicide bombers had planned to ...

Iraq, long hit by decades of violence that shrank its regional role, has now turned from a victim of conflict into a country reclaiming its influential position in the Middle East, the top UN official ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis turned 88 on Tuesday and marked the occasion with revelations that he almost didn’t make it. According to excerpts of his upcoming autobiography, suicide bombers had planned ...

(CNN) — 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 ...

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 against ...

A U.S. Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker assigned to the 97th Expeditionary Aerial Refueling Squadron (EARS) refuels F-16 Vipers (aka Fighting Falcons) in the sky near Iraq on Apr. 19, 2021. The 97th EARS ...