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.

Also Friday, hundreds of men, women and children crowded the main hospital in Mosul, trying to find and identify the 50 dead and more than 100 wounded in Thursday's blast at a funeral tent jammed ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN)-- Bombings killed six Iraqis and wounded 51 in Baghdad and Mosul on Tuesday, and the Iraqi Interior Ministry said the death toll in a suicide bombing the day before in Karbala ...

The al-Qaeda splinter group seized Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city, in a mid-2014 blitz. In recent months, Daesh militants have been carrying out a string of bombings in different parts of ...

A 53-year-old British bomb disposal expert has been killed in a roadside ambush in northern Iraq. Father-of-three ... their vehicle along a main road to Mosul. A Foreign Office spokeswoman said ...

MOSUL, Iraq (AP) — For over 850 years, the leaning minaret of the Great Mosque of al-Nuri stood as an iconic landmark in the Iraqi city of Mosul until it was destroyed by the Islamic State group ...

For the children of Mosul, life took a darker turn when IS took over – as Hussein discovered one terrible day at school. On the last day of his short life, 10-year-old Sami* had something ...

Pope Francis has revealed in a new book, “Spera,” that he narrowly escaped two attempts on his life during his visit to Iraq in March 2021 in the city of Mosul. A survey conducted between 2022 ...