Shafaq News/ Iraq handed the Iranian side documents related to the assassination of Iran's expeditionary Quds Force late commander, Qasem Soleimani, Iran's Deputy Chief Kazem Gharibabadi said on Thursday according to IRNA.

A new session of the joint committee of Iran and Iraq will convene in Baghdad to pursue legal action in the case of the American assassination of top Iranian commander Lt. General Qassem Soleimani.

Kazem Gharibabadi, the Iranian Judiciary chief's deputy for international affairs, announced on Sunday that the third session of the joint committee of Iran and Iraq for investigation into the US assassination of General Soleimani will be held in Baghdad in the coming days.

He said the new round of negotiations will begin on Tuesday, February 8, and will continue for two days in the Iraqi capital, IRNA reported.

Lt. General Soleimani, the former commander the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Quds Force, was martyred together with his companions in a US drone strike that targeted Baghdad in January 2020. The attack came while General Soleimani was paying an official visit to the Iraqi capital.

The strike had been directly ordered by former US president Donald Trump.

Among the other victims was senior Iraqi paramilitary commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis.