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 …
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 Reporting from Baghdad, Al Jazeera’s Simona Foltyn said: “The crowds have now fully withdrawn from the US embassy.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 …
PMF supporters demand end to US ‘intervention’, as other Iraqi demonstrators distance themselves from embassy tensions. Hundreds of pro-Iran protesters surrounded the United States embassy in Baghdad on Tuesday to demand an end to US “intervention” in the country. “We are here because we are against US presence in Iraq and its targeting of the Hashd al-Shaabi and we won’t …
