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#soleimani

The United States confirmed on early Friday morning that it had assassinated the head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards' elite Quds Force in Iraq. General Qasem Soleimani and a number of others were killed in a targeted strike by a US drone at Baghdad's international airport. Soleimani had been the head of the Quds Force, which handles operations abroad, since 1998. According to the Pentagon, the General was killed "at the direction of the President ". The Pentagon added that…