TOPSHOT-IRAQ-US-CONFLICT

TOPSHOT - A member of Iraq's Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) paramilitaries holds a sign depicting Qasem Soleimani (L), the slain commander of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' (IRGC) Quds Force, and Iraqi PMF commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, who were killed together by a US drone strike on January 3, 2020; during the funeral of PMF members killed on January 4, 2024 at their headquarters in Baghdad on the same day. A US strike in Baghdad on January 4 killed a military commander of the PMF, an ex-paramilitary faction of the grouping said, with an Iraqi security official reporting two deaths in a drone attack. Harakat al-Nujaba, one of the PMF's factions, said in a statement that "the deputy commander of operations for Baghdad, Mushtaq Talib al-Saidi", had been "martyred in a US strike". (Photo by Ahmad Al-Rubaye / AFP) (Photo by AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP via Getty Images)