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Qasem Soleimani assassination
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Description
Assassination of Qasem Soleimani is located in Iraq
On 3 January 2020, a United States
drone strike
near
Baghdad International Airport
targeted and killed
Iranian major general
Qasem Soleimani
of Iran's
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
(IRGC) while he was reportedly planned to meet Iraqi Prime Minister
Adil Abdul-Mahdi
in Baghdad. Soleimani was commander of the
Quds Force
—which has been designated a terrorist organization by the U.S.,
Canada
,
Saudi Arabia
and
Bahrain
—and was considered the second most powerful person of Iran, subordinate to
Supreme Leader
Ali Khamenei
. Nine others were killed alongside Soleimani, including four Iranian and five
Iraqi
nationals such as deputy chairman of Iraq's
Popular Mobilization Forces
(PMF) and commander of the Iran-backed
Kata'ib Hezbollah
militia,
Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis
—a designated terrorist in the U.S. and in the
United Arab Emirates
(UAE).
References
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination of Qasem Soleimani
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