The Popular Mobilization Forces are planning an elaborate funeral procession for Soleimani, Iraqi militia leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and the others who died
This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.Kataib Hezbollah Iraqi militia hold the picture of the Iranian Major-General Qassem Soleimani, as they gather ahead of the funeral of the Iraqi militia commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, who was killed in an air strike at Baghdad airport, in Baghdad, Iraq, January 4, 2020.
Soleimani was Tehran’s most prominent military commander and the architect of its growing influence in the Middle East. Muhandis was the deputy commander of Iraq’s Popular Mobilisation Forces umbrella grouping of paramilitary groups.The PMF are planning an elaborate funeral procession for both men and the others who died, starting in Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone, moving towards the Shi’ite holy city of Kerbala and ending in the Shi’ite holy city of Najaf.
Earlier on Saturday, Iraq’s PMF had said further air strikes near camp Taji had killed six people and critically wounded three. The attacks hit a convoy of medics, not senior leaders, the grouping said. “FACT: the coalition … did not conduct airstrikes near Camp Taji in recent days,” a coalition spokesman said on Twitter.
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