On 3 January 2020, former Iran’s IRGC Quds Force Commander Lt. Gen. Qassem Soleimani along with Second-in-Command of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces (PMU) Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis was assassinated by an American drone strike ordered by US President Donald Trump near Baghdad International Airport in Iraq, while travelling to meet the then Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi.
BAGHDAD, Aug. 19 (MNA) – Iran's Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf paid tribute to the martyr Qassem Soleimani's tomb and Second-in-Command of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces (PMU) Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis upon his arrival in Baghdad on Wed.
