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Yemenis condemn US assassination of top Iranian commander
Jan 05, 2020 05:09The assassination of top Iranian Commander Lieutenant General Qasem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the Deputy Commander of Iraq’s anti-terror Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), has sent shock waves across the region.
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World leaders urge Iran to calm down after assassination of military commander
Jan 05, 2020 04:54Leaders of the international community are scrambling to de-escalate a situation created following the assassination of a senior Iranian military commander in Iraq by the American forces.
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US has ‘virtually declared war’ on Iran, says Obama-era official
Jan 05, 2020 04:10The assassination of Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani, the Commander of the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), means the United States has “virtually declared war” on Iran, says an official with the administration of former US President Barack Obama.
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Soleimani’s assassination may trigger end of US military presence in Iraq: Paper
Jan 05, 2020 03:46A report says the assassination of Iran’s senior Commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani might trigger the pullout of the United States from Iraq.
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Iraqis will drive out US occupation troops: Senior Iraqi MP
Jan 05, 2020 03:08The leader of a powerful political coalition in Iraq’s parliament says US occupation forces will be driven out from the Iraqi territory, in the wake of the assassination of Hashd al-Sha’abi’s Second-in-Command, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, and Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani, the Commander of the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC).
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US will pay heavy price for assassinating Lieutenant General Soleimani: Rouhani
Jan 05, 2020 02:58President Hassan Rouhani says the United States is accountable for any consequences of its act of terror against Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani, the Commander of the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), stressing that Washington will pay a heavy price for its recent terrorist move.
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IRGC: Strategic revenge to end US presence in region
Jan 05, 2020 02:45Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps says the strategic revenge that will follow the United States’ assassination of senior IRGC Commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani will surely end Washington’s regional presence.
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Bodies of Lieutenant Gen. Soleimani, companions arrive in Iran for cross-country funeral
Jan 05, 2020 02:32The bodies of anti-terror Commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani and his companions have arrived in the southern Iranian city of Ahvaz from Iraq where they were assassinated by the US early on Friday.
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President Rouhani visits home of Lieutenant General Soleimani
Jan 04, 2020 13:55Iran's President Hassan Rouhani visited the home of Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani, the commander of the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC), who was assassinated in US airstrikes in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad on Friday.
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Iraq's PMU denies strike on fighters as US mounts attacks on anti-terror group
Jan 04, 2020 08:04Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) has denied a fresh US airstrike targeted its fighters as the United States steps up attacks on the counter-terrorism paramilitary group in the Arab country.