Funeral held in Baghdad for ex-bodyguard of Hezbollah leader
Baghdad – Hundreds of people attend the funeral in Baghdad of Hussein Khalil – the former bodyguard of slain Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah – his son Mahdi, and Haider al-Moussawi, commander of the security unit of the Iraqi armed group the Sayyed al-Shuhada Brigades.
All three were killed a day earlier in an Israeli drone strike in Iran near the Iraqi border.
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