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Iraqis Mark Annivesary of Top Iranian General's Assassination

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   Thousands of Iraqis converged on central Baghdad's Tahrir Square on
   Sunday to mark the first anniversary of the twin assassinations in a
   U.S. air strike of a top Iranian general and a leader of an Iraqi
   powerful Shi'ite militia.
   Last year's U.S. drone strike near Baghdad airport killed Major General
   Qasem Soleimani, the commander of the elite Quds Force of Iran's
   Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), and Abu Mahdi al-Mohandes,
   the deputy head of Iraq's Hashd al-Shaabi militia, along with several
   other Iran-allied militiamen.
   Many of the demonstrators were holding posters of Soleimani and
   al-Mohandes while some demanded the expulsion of U.S. troops from Iraq.

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