Taleb Abbas Ali al-Saedi, a top leader of the Popular Mobilization Forces, was killed in Karbala, a city in central Iraq, by “unidentified gunmen,” the outlet reported.

H/T: New York Post

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The US military has not commented on the incident which took place Saturday night amid rising tensions in the region after Iranian General Qassem Soleimani was killed by a US drone strike.

Al-Saedi was a prominent commander of pro-Iran Shiite militia, the Karbala Brigades, a unit within the Popular Mobilization Forces umbrella group in Iraq.

This latest incident occurred during a dramatic turn of events in which Iran was forced to admit their responsibility in the downing of a Ukrainian passenger plane, resulting in large numbers of Iranians taking to the streets of Tehran in angry protest of their government.

High-level pro-Iran militia commander is assassinated in Iraq by unknown gunmen https://t.co/zAJwX0ZRyE — DeepClips (@DeepClips) January 12, 2020

#IRAQ | PMF’s Karbala brigade* commander, Talib Abbas al-Saidi, was assassinated in #Baghdad.



* this brigade is joined to the army#insm_iq pic.twitter.com/5mM16MuteX — Yousif al-Hashimi يوسف الهاشمي (@YousifHashimi) January 11, 2020