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Iraq court issues warrant for Trump s arrest over Muhandis killing Warrant issued after complaint from Iraqi commander s family, who died alongside Iran s Qassem Soleimani in a January 2020 drone strike A man stands with a sign reading No to American invaders during a demonstration outside the entrance to the Iraqi capital Baghdad s highly-fortified Green Zone on 7 November 2020 (AFP) By Published date: 7 January 2021 13:27 UTC | Last update: 2 months 2 weeks ago An Iraqi court has issued an arrest warrant for outgoing US President Donald Trump over the killing of Iraqi militia leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis in a January 2020 air strike that also killed high-ranking Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani. ....
Friday 18/12/2020 A police officer shows drug pills at a police station in Basra, Iraq. (REUTERS) BAGHDAD – Following Iraq’s “puritanical” campaign to close down liquor stores, Turkish alcohol providers have suffered while the Iranian drug trade has prospered. As booze coming from Turkey dried out in the south, consumption of drugs from Iran spread massively among youth, filling the huge market shortage for “joy-inducing products.” It seems as though Iran has decided to close the Iraqi market to Turkish alcohol, with the aim of fueling drug consumption. Over the past three weeks, several shops selling alcoholic beverages in Baghdad have been targeted by bomb attacks carried out by Shia militias affiliated with Iran. Not only have Iraq’s security forces failed to intervene, they have themselves launched a crackdown on the alcohol shops that survived the bomb attacks, closing them under the pretext that they lack authorisation. ....