Cairo: Iraq Prime Minister Mostafa Al Kadhimi has sharply criticised a show of force by an Iran-allied armed militia after authorities arrested a militia commander for criminal investigations.
Personnel of the Popular Mobilisation Units (PMU) Wednesday appeared in vehicles in the capital Baghdad, including the fortified Green Zone, to protest the arrest of a PMU commander Qassem Musleh.
Authorities said Musleh had been detained upon an arrest warrant and judicial investigations under an anti-terror law for questioning on criminal charges, without specifying them.
Local media hinted that Musleh was detained for involvement in recent killings of pro-reform activists in Iraq.
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Islamic State Returns: Claims Baghdad Suicide Bombing Killing 32
22 Jan 2021
Representatives of the Islamic State jihadist group confirmed Thursday that they organized twin suicide bombings in Baghdad, Iraq, that day that left 32 dead and over 100 injured.
The attack was the largest of its kind in years in the capital, and the biggest significant attack by the Islamic State in the country since the demise of the group’s “caliphate” in 2017, prompting panic from the Iraqi government. The location is a particular cause of concern for Iraq given that ISIS was traditionally most active in the north of the country, taking over the then-second-largest city in the country, Mosul, and invading areas populated by the nation’s Yazidi minority. Baghdad is about 250 miles from Mosul. ISIS is a Sunni jihadist group, bringing it into conflict with the majority-Shiite Iraqi government and Iranian proxy militias like the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), which became an official wing of
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