Pope leaves Iraq after historic visit without incident

Pope Francis left Iraq on Monday morning, ending the first visit of a sovereign pontiff in history without any incident in a country regularly shaken by violence, according to AFP information.

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The 84-year-old Argentine pope has crisscrossed the country since Friday, March 5, going to Baghdad, Mosul and Qaraqosh in the north tortured by the jihadists, and carried the cause of one of the oldest Christian communities but also one of the more dispersed in the world, even in front of the great Ayatollah Ali Sistani, a religious reference for most Shiite Muslims.