<p>A hardline Iraqi faction hanged effigies of US President Donald Trump in Baghdad on Monday, ahead of a memorial for their commander killed in a US strike.</p>.<p>On Tuesday, the Iraqi capital will commemorate 40 days since Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, deputy head of Iraq's powerful Hashed al-Shaabi military network, was killed alongside top Iranian general Qasem Soleimani in a US drone strike in Baghdad.</p>.<p>An official memorial service will be held in the morning in Baghdad's high-security Green Zone, followed by a public commemoration.</p>.<p>In preparation, Kataeb Hezbollah -- a hardline Hashed faction that Muhandis founded -- erected mock gallows at the entrances to the massive eastern district of Sadr City.</p>.<p>Hanged in nooses were cut-outs of Trump with his tongue protruding and soldiers in US uniforms.</p>.<p>Enormous portraits of Muhandis and Soleimani were also erected elsewhere in the city.</p>.<p>"Our people hung the gallows in preparation for the 40-day memorial service," said an official from Kataeb Hezbollah, who declined to give his name.</p>.<p>Washington carried out a drone strike outside Baghdad International Airport in the early hours of January 3, hitting the two-car convoy in which Soleimani and Muhandis were travelling.</p>.<p>Trump authorised the strike against Soleimani but had not specifically targeted Muhandis, US officials said.</p>.<p>The Iraqi commander was picking up his longtime friend and mentor Soleimani, Iran's pointman on Iraqi affairs, who had just landed. </p>
<p>A hardline Iraqi faction hanged effigies of US President Donald Trump in Baghdad on Monday, ahead of a memorial for their commander killed in a US strike.</p>.<p>On Tuesday, the Iraqi capital will commemorate 40 days since Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, deputy head of Iraq's powerful Hashed al-Shaabi military network, was killed alongside top Iranian general Qasem Soleimani in a US drone strike in Baghdad.</p>.<p>An official memorial service will be held in the morning in Baghdad's high-security Green Zone, followed by a public commemoration.</p>.<p>In preparation, Kataeb Hezbollah -- a hardline Hashed faction that Muhandis founded -- erected mock gallows at the entrances to the massive eastern district of Sadr City.</p>.<p>Hanged in nooses were cut-outs of Trump with his tongue protruding and soldiers in US uniforms.</p>.<p>Enormous portraits of Muhandis and Soleimani were also erected elsewhere in the city.</p>.<p>"Our people hung the gallows in preparation for the 40-day memorial service," said an official from Kataeb Hezbollah, who declined to give his name.</p>.<p>Washington carried out a drone strike outside Baghdad International Airport in the early hours of January 3, hitting the two-car convoy in which Soleimani and Muhandis were travelling.</p>.<p>Trump authorised the strike against Soleimani but had not specifically targeted Muhandis, US officials said.</p>.<p>The Iraqi commander was picking up his longtime friend and mentor Soleimani, Iran's pointman on Iraqi affairs, who had just landed. </p>