Qais Khazali

Iraq’s former prime minister slams US sanctions on pro-Iran militia leader

Abdul Mahdi also condemned protesters for insulting Iraqi leaders and tearing down posters of them.

DECEMBER 16, 2019BySETH J. FRANTZMAN

Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi speaks during a symbolic funeral ceremony of Major General Ali al-Lami, who commands the Iraqi Federal Police's Fourth Division, who was killed in Salahuddin, in Baghdad, Iraq October 23, 201