epa08102269 Members of Iran-backed Iraqi Shiite armed groups popular mobilization forces gather next to the coffin of an Iranian Revolutionary Guards officer who was killed with General Qasem Soleimani during a funeral procession in central Baghdad, Iraq, 04 January 2020. Thousands of Iraqi Shiite armed groups members have joined the funeral procession in Baghdad for Iraqi militia commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' elite Quds Force, and the eight others killed in a US drone strike at the Baghdad international airport on 03 January 2020. EPA-EFE/AHMED JALIL