Tag: Iraq

According to the pope’s autobiography, British intelligence informed Iraqi police that a woman wearing explosives was planning to blow herself up during his visit.

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.

While serving in Iraq in 2006, a roadside bomb cost him his right leg and severely injured his left. “I was at the worst part—one of the worst parts of my life—physically, emotionally, psychologically,” he said. “And once you get broken—once you hit rock bottom—you have no place to go but up.”

Mr. Leach would later serve as head of the National Endowment for the Humanities during the Obama administration and as interim leader of the Institute of Politics at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.

Now she fears other young girls will be subjected to similar ordeals if lawmakers pass proposed amendments to Iraq’s Personal Status Law that could allow marriage for girls as young as 9 as well as give religious authorities the power to decide on family …