Fighters of Iraq's Hashed al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilisation Forces - PMF) paramilitaries ride in vehicles moving in a convoy during the funeral of Hassan Hammadi al-Amiri, a fallen member of the group Kataeb Hezbollah, one of the factions of the PMF, in Baghdad on December 26, 2023, after he was killed earlier in a US airstrike. US air strikes targeting a pro-Iranian group in Iraq on December 26 claimed at least one life, drawing an angry response from Baghdad as regional tensions spike amid the Israel-Hamas war. The United States has repeatedly targeted sites used by Iran and its proxy forces in Iraq and Syria in response to dozens of attacks on American and allied forces in the region since the October 7 outbreak of the war. (Photo by AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP)