Hundreds of Hashd demonstrators swept past a security detail on Friday and stormed into the offices of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), which runs the Kurdish autonomous region in northern Iraq, and torched them.
Protesters burned Kurdish flags while others carried posters of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani and his Iraqi lieutenant Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, who were killed in a US drone strike in Baghdad in January 2020.
The Hashd paramilitaries were formed in 2014 from mostly-Shia armed groups and volunteers to fight the ISIL (ISIS) group.
Hashd has since been formally integrated into Iraq’s armed forces and has representation in parliament, and it has spawned several ideologically affiliated armed groups.
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Carrying Soleimani posters, pro-Iran protesters torch Kurd party offices in Iraq | Al Arabiya English
ReplyDeleteSupporters of the Iranian-backed Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) militias on Saturday burned down the main Kurdish party’s headquarters in Baghdad after criticism from a Kurdish ex-minister.
Hundreds of PMU demonstrators swept past a security detail and stormed into the offices of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), which runs the Kurdish autonomous region in northern Iraq, and torched them.
Protesters burned Kurdish flags while others carried posters of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani and his Iraqi lieutenant Abu Mahdi al-Muhandes, who were killed in a US drone strike in Baghdad last January.
The PMU militias were formed in 2014 from mostly-Shia armed groups and volunteers to fight ISIS.