In this Jan 17, 2020 file photo, released by the official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, worshippers chant slogans during Friday prayers ceremony, as a banner show Iranian Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani, left, and Iraqi Shi’ite senior militia commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, who were killed in Iraq in a US drone attack on Jan 3, 2020, at Imam Khomeini Grand Mosque in Tehran, Iran. (OFFICE OF THE IRANIAN SUPREME LEADER VIA AP)

BAGHDAD - An Iraqi court issued Thursday an arrest warrant for outgoing US President Donald Trump over the killing of deputy chief of the Iraqi paramilitary Hashd Shaabi forces in January 2020.

"A judge in Baghdad's al-Rusafa court in charge of investigating the killing of Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, deputy chief of Iraq's paramilitary Hashd Shaabi forces, issued an arrest warrant against the US President Donald Trump," the Iraqi Supreme Judicial Council said in a statement.

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The judge issued the warrant after hearing the complaints of al-Muhandis' family members and the completion of the preliminary investigation procedures, according to the statement.

"Investigation procedures are continuing to find out the other participants in committing this crime, whether they are Iraqis or foreigners," the statement added.

On Jan 3, 2020, a US drone attacked a convoy near Baghdad International Airport that killed Qassem Soleimani, commander of the Quds Force of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps, and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, deputy chief of Hashd Shaabi forces. 

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