US-led coalition denies conducting new Baghdad air strike

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BAGHDAD: The US-led coalition fighting Islamic State said on Saturday (Jan 4) it did not conduct any air strikes near Camp Taji north of Baghdad. ...

"FACT: the coalition ... did not conduct airstrikes near Camp Taji in recent days," a spokesman said on Twitter.AdvertisementA US air strike on Baghdad airport on Friday killed Qassem Soleimani, Tehran's most prominent military commander and the architect of its growing influence in the Middle East, and the leader of Iraq's PMF Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis.

The overnight attack, authorised by US President Donald Trump, was a major escalation in a"shadow war" in the Middle East between Iran and the United States and American allies, principally Israel and Saudi Arabia.The PMF are holding an elaborate funeral procession for both men and others who died in the same air strike starting in Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, moving towards the Shi'ite holy city of Kerbala and ending in the Shi'ite holy city of Najaf.

Thousands had already gathered in Baghdad ahead of the start of the procession early on Saturday morning, some waving Iraqi and militia flags.

 

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