Iraq issues an arrest warrant for President Trump

<p><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-1849" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;thedailypage&period;ng&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2021&sol;01&sol;images-2021-01-07T110732&period;978&period;jpeg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"678" height&equals;"452" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"text &vert; article-text">Iraq’s judiciary says it has issued an arrest warrant for outgoing President Donald Trump in connection with the killing of an Iranian general and a powerful Iraqi militia leader last year&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"text &vert; article-text">The warrant was issued by a judge in Baghdad’s investigative court tasked with probing the Washington-directed drone strike that killed Gen&period; Qassim Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis&comma; the court’s media office said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"text &vert; article-text">The two were killed outside the capital’s airport last January&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"text &vert; article-text">Al-Muhandis was the deputy leader of the state-sanctioned Popular Mobilization Forces&comma; an umbrella group composed of an array of militias&comma; including Iran-backed groups&comma; formed to fight the Islamic State group&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>AP<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;