Hawzah News Agency - (London - UK) - Muslims have attended a memorial service for assassinated Iranian general Qassem Soleimani at the Islamic Centre in London.

Crowds squeezed into the religious hub and sat beneath a painting of the Islamic Republic's second-in-command and Iraqi military commander Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis, as they paid their respects to those massacred in the US airstrikes.

Thousands lined the streets of Baghdad and Tehran today in memory of the dead commanders, while protests against the attack took place across the US, Middle East and outside 10 Downing Street, London.

US President Donald Trump said the strike was carried out to save the lives of hundreds in America and Europe.

As the service took place demonstrators took to the streets of New York, Washington DC and London to denounce the violence and call on Trump to de-escalate the conflict.

Palestinians also burned American flags in Gaza City.