Gunmen in the Iraqi city of Kut have fired on people protesting against a commemoration of assassinated Iranian general Qassem Soleimani, wounding two.
Iranian General Qassem Soleimani was killed along with his Iraqi lieutenant Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis in a US drone strike in Baghdad ordered by then-US President Donald Trump.
Former Israeli intelligence chief Tamir Heyman has acknowledged that Israel was involved in an American airstrike that killed Iranian General Qassem Soleimani near Baghdad Airport in January 2020
President Trump spent much of his speech defending his decision to order the strike that killed top Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, whom he labeled the "world's No. 1 terrorist".
Dozens of people have been killed and scores injured in a stampede that broke out at a funeral procession for top Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani.