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The modern Middle East has seen a number of occasions in which the assassination of high-level government and military figures was attempted, or at least considered. Such instances include United States decapitation strike air raids targeting Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in 1986 and Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein in 1991, 1998, and 2003, in addition to killings or attempted killings of non-state ...
The People's Mojahedin of Iran, an exiled Iranian militant group, welcomed the killing of Soleimani.Its leader Maryam Rajavi, the wife of the disappeared Massoud Rajavi, stated that the killing is an "irreparable blow for the regime of the mullahs" while she accused Soleimani of being "one of the biggest criminals in Iran's history" and "personally implicated in the massacre of thousands of ...
Soleimani was succeeded by Esmail Ghaani as commander of the Quds Force. [168] According to the Iranian Students News Agency quoting the Iraqi Al-Ahd network, there are diverse narratives concerning the drones which killed Soleimani and Abu-Mahdi al-Muhandis). One mentions American drones taking off from Kuwait and entering Iraq, which the ...
General Qassem Soleimani, leader of the elite Quds force, was killed in a US air strike at Baghdad airport. Everything you need to know about the Iranian general, Qasem Soleimani, killed in a US ...
By Andrew Goudsward and Luc Cohen. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A Pakistani man with alleged ties to Iran has been charged in the United States in connection with a foiled plot to assassinate a U.S ...
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Sunday defended President Trump’s order to launch a drone strike that killed Iran’s charismatic Gen. Qassem Soleimani, escalating the tension between ...
The Pentagon said that the U.S. military has killed Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s elite Quds Force, at the direction of President Trump.
On 8 January 2020, in a military operation code named Operation Martyr Soleimani (Persian: عملیات شهید سلیمانی), [5] Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) launched over 12 ballistic missiles at the al-Asad Airbase in Al Anbar Governorate, western Iraq, as well as another airbase in Erbil, in response to the assassination of Major General Qasem Soleimani by a United ...