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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 president on Thursday continued to defend his decision to order the drone strike that killed Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani ... claiming that Tehran was planning an attack on the U.S. embassy ...
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 ...
For attacks orchestrated or attempted against American and other targets abroad, Soleimani was personally sanctioned by the United Nations and the European Union, [20] [21] [22] and was designated as a terrorist by the United States in 2005. [23] [24] [25] Soleimani was assassinated by a targeted drone strike on 3 January 2020 in Baghdad, Iraq.
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The Revolutionary Guards commander instructed his top ally in Iraq, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, and other powerful militia leaders to step up attacks on U.S. targets in the country using sophisticated ...
2013 attack on Pakistan Embassy in Tripoli: August 3 India Afghanistan: Jalalabad: 9 21 [97] August 7 Pakistan India: New Delhi: 2013 attack on Pakistan Embassy in New Delhi: September 13 United States Afghanistan: Herat: 2 20 2013 attack on U.S. consulate in Herat: October 3 Russia Libya: Tripoli: 1 [98] October 11 Sweden Libya: Benghazi: 0 0
"I will say this, we caught a total monster," Trump said of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani, who was killed in a U.S. drone attack in Baghdad on Jan. 3. "That should have happened a long time ago.