Qassem Soleimani
1 Jan 2022
Thousands of supporters of Iraq's Hashed al-Shaabi alliance of armed groups Saturday marked the second anniversary of the killing of a revered Iranian commander and his Iraqi lieutenant in a US drone strike. Chanting "Death to America", they filled a Baghdad square to honour Iran's General Qassem Soleimani, who headed the Quds Force, the foreign…
31 Dec 2021
Iran said Friday the current US administration is also "responsible" for the assassination two years ago of its revered commander Qassem Soleimani, as the Islamic republic started commemorations to mark his death.
7 May 2020
US President Donald Trump on Wednesday vetoed what he called a "very insulting" congressional resolution seeking to limit his war powers in Iran.
14 Jan 2020
A top Iranian military commander was killed in a drone strike ordered by the United States President, Donald Trump the other day. In keeping with its vow of a “crushing revenge,” Iran responded with force, launching more than a dozen missiles at two Iraqi bases that hold U.S. troops ...
10 Jan 2020
A former Malian government official was charged on Thursday for sending embarrassing tweets from the president's account about the US assassination of Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani a judicial source said. The former spokesperson for President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, Tiegoum Maiga, later outed himself on his own Twitter account. Keita's official Twitter account had posted on…
9 Jan 2020
The assassination last Friday of General Qassem Soleimani, 62, the Iranian military commander, has introduced another dimension to modern warfare. On the day of his death, Soleimani was surrounded by his faithful military...
4 Jan 2020
When President Donald Trump’s national security team went to his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida on Monday, they weren’t expecting him to approve an operation to kill General Qassem Soleimani.
3 Jan 2020
The US embassy in Baghdad on Friday urged all American citizens currently in Iraq to depart immediately following the killing of top Iranian commander General Qassem Soleimani. “US citizens should depart via airline while possible, and failing that, to other countries via land,” the embassy said in a statement. The development comes after a US…
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