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: …
After being hit with tear gas, demonstrators who rallied against deadly US air raids heed calls to retreat. Reporting from Baghdad, Al Jazeera’s Simona Foltyn said: “The crowds have now fully withdrawn from the US embassy. “But we’ve set up camp on the banks of the Tigris opposite the US embassy and the Green Zone so that we can continue …
