Militia members chant ‘Death to America’ as they mass near Baghdad’s Green Zone where the US embassy is located. Thousands of members of Iraq’s Hashd al-Shabi paramilitary alliance gathered in Baghdad on Tuesday to mourn comrades killed in American air attacks along the Syrian border. The mourners, accompanied by vehicles full of gunmen, wore black and held up signs reading: …
Thousands of Iraqi mourners have condemned the “American occupiers”, a year after a United States drone strike killed Iran’s revered general Qassem Soleimani and Iraqi militia commander, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis. ‘Think it over’ Trump recently said on Twitter that the US was hearing the “chatter of additional attacks against Americans in Iraq”, and warned: “If one American is killed, I …
Mourners gathered in the holy city to pay their respects before the armed group leader was buried at Salam Cemetery. Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, a leader of Popular Mobilisation Forces, has been buried at the Salam Cemetery in the Iraqi holy city of Najaf. “The DNA testing was completed successfully and he was flown to Basra, his hometown, for mourners to …
Al-Muhandis was deputy leader of Hashd al-Shaabi, an Iraqi paramilitary group with close ties to Iran. Iraqi paramilitary chief Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, killed early on Friday in a US air strike in Baghdad, was seen as Tehran’s man in Iraq and a sworn enemy of the United States. The US strike on Baghdad’s international airport also killed Iranian general Qassem …
