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The Quds Force's commander, General Qasem Soleimani, was involved with both the planning as well as the execution of the operation to expel ISIL from Tikrit. In 2014, Quds Force was deployed into Iraq to lead Iranian action against ISIL. Iran sent three Quds Force battalions to help the Iraqi government repel ISIL's 2014 Northern Iraq offensive ...
In January 2020, Leader of Iran Ali Khamenei appointed Qaani as Commander of the Quds Force after General Qasem Soleimani was killed by a targeted U.S. drone strike near Baghdad International Airport. [6] [4] Khamenei described him as "one of the most prominent military commanders during the Sacred Defense". [34]
The Israeli think tank also claimed the Quds Force, also known as the Jerusalem Force, was reported by The Telegraph to control a company that "specializes in anti-tank mines and operates under the aegis of the IRGC’s al-Quds or Jerusalem Force" and was responsible for making bombs that killed American and British soldiers in Iraq. [51]
The commander of the overseas arm of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards is well and will receive a medal from Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei soon, the semi-official Tasnim news agency quoted ...
(Reuters) - Iran's Quds Force commander Esmail Qaani, who travelled to Lebanon after the killing last month of Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in an Israeli airstrike, has not been heard ...
DUBAI (Reuters) -The top commander of Iran's Quds Force, Esmail Qaani, is in "good health", the force's deputy commander Iraj Masjedi said on Monday, after two Iranian security sources told ...
Soleimani was commander of the Quds Force, one of five branches of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which is designated as a terrorist organization by both the United States and European Parliament. [4] [5] Soleimani was considered the second most powerful person in Iran, subordinate to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. [6]
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