The Iranian regime unveiled on Aug. 18 two ballistic missiles, with one named after Qassem Soleimani, the slain Qods Force commander, and the other after Iraqi militia leader Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis, who was killed along with Soleimani in a U.S. drone strike in Baghdad on Jan. 3. On the same day, it was reported that […]

Commentary The effigies of President Donald Trump, Crown Prince Muhammed bin Salman, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are burned by government-organized demonstrators. Threats abound from Ayatollahs, Democrats in Congress, leftist media, celebrities, and academics who lament Soleimani’s death. Iranian citizens have no such remorse. A notorious terrorist Quds Force commander, Qassem Soleimani was killed on […]

Attorney General William Barr on Monday said that the killing of the Iranian regime’s top military official, Qassem Soleimani, was a “legitimate act of self-defense.” His remarks were made in response to a journalist’s question after Barr and other senior law enforcement officials announced the findings of a criminal investigation into the shooting at Pensacola […]

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo won’t attend a congressional hearing on the killing of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani, according to House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.). Soleimani, a terrorist who headed the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force, was taken out by a U.S. drone strike in Baghdad on Jan. 3. The House Foreign […]

Commentary The U.S. strike on Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani was one of the most significant events in the Middle East in nearly 70 years. The U.S. “Reaper” drone strike at the Baghdad Airport on Jan. 3 that killed Soleimani was precise, rapid, and without civilian casualties. Even though it has turned the region upside […]

President Donald Trump elaborated more on the threat posed by Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani, saying Iran was aiming to blow up the U.S. Embassy in Iraq. Soleimani was killed in a drone strike in Baghdad last week, prompting Iran to launch missiles at Iraqi military bases that contained U.S. troops on the night of Jan. […]

Vice President Mike Pence on Thursday morning said that the Trump administration cannot reveal more information about the airstrike that killed Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani last week or any intelligence leading up to the event. “Some of that has to do with what’s called sources and methods,” Pence told NBC News on Thursday. “Some of […]

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Wednesday that the missile strikes launched by his country against U.S. and coalition forces in Iraq were “not sufficient” retaliation in the wake of the killing of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani by a U.S. airstrike. Addressing a gathering of Iranians in Tehran chanting “death to America” on Jan. […]

National security adviser Robert O’Brien on Tuesday said Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani was conspiring to attack American facilities, diplomats, and soldiers in “significant numbers.” “The president has always made it his first priority to protect American citizens, and the intel that we had, the information we had—which we believe was very strong—showed that Soleimani and […]

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo dismissed a suggestion that Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani was on a diplomatic mission in Iraq when he was killed by an American drone strike last week. The claim, he said, is “fundamentally false” and a piece of “Iranian propaganda.” Iran’s foreign minister, Javad Zarif, claimed that Soleimani, who was in charge […]

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo defended the killing of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani, telling reporters in Washington that it was the “right decision.” An airstrike ordered by President Donald Trump killed Soleimani, the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Quds Forces, in Baghdad on Jan. 2. Reporters and some lawmakers have challenged U.S. leaders who […]

Killing Iranian General Qassem Soleimani was an act of self-defense, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper said. Asked if he was willing to suspend the campaign against ISIS in order to take out Soleimani, Esper told reporters on Monday that there was “an escalation of attacks by Iranian proxy groups, Kataeb Hezbollah being the primary one, […]

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) called for public congressional hearings on the Trump administration’s decision to authorize an airstrike that killed top Iranian commander Gen. Qassem Soleimani. “I think there should be open hearings on this subject,” Schiff, who was in charge of an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump late last year, […]

Mourners gathered in Iran’s capital for General Qassem Soleimani’s funeral, including Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Khamenei at one point cried openly at Monday’s funeral. Khamenei led a mass prayer as he stood over a flag-draped casket with the remains of Soleimani, who was killed in a U.S. airstrike in Baghdad, Iraq on Friday. Khamenei’s […]

Esmail Qaani, the replacement for the Iranian regime’s General Qassem Soleimani, said at Soleimani’s funeral over the weekend that Iran would avenge Soleimani’s death as another military official threatened to target United States assets. A U.S. airstrike took out Soleimani and other Iranian officials in Baghdad early Jan. 2. Thousands attended Soleimani’s funeral, during which the […]

Iran will no longer abide by the limits of the 2015 nuclear deal intended to curb its burgeoning nuclear program, according to a statement from the regime. “The Islamic Republic of Iran will end its final limitations in the nuclear deal, meaning the limitation in the number of centrifuges,” the statement reads. “Therefore Iran’s nuclear program […]

In mid-October, Iranian Major-General Qassem Soleimani met with his Iraqi Shi’ite militia allies at a villa on the banks of the Tigris River, looking across at the U.S. embassy complex in Baghdad. The Revolutionary Guards commander instructed his top ally in Iraq, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, and other powerful Pro-Iran militia leaders to step up attacks […]

Commentary Remember “politics stops at the water’s edge”? In the Trump era, that patriotic phrase isn’t only dead, it’s decomposed. And ironically so, since the latest manifestation of this decomposition is over the termination of Qassem Soleimani, the terror mastermind who was, on analysis, even more dangerous to the United States and the world than […]

The Department of Defense, along with the Department of State and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, has briefed staff members from the House Armed Service Committee and the Senate Armed Service Committee, Pentagon Press Secretary Alyssa Farah said on Saturday. Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs Katie Wheelbarger hosted the […]

Tens of thousands of people marched in Baghdad, Iraq, on Jan. 4 to mourn slain Iranian General Qassem Soleimani and others killed in a U.S. airstrike, including Iraqi militia leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis. Al-Muhandis was the deputy commander of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), a grouping of Iran-backed militias. Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi […]

President Donald Trump’s order to kill Iranian General Qassem Soleimani was “a very significant effort to reestablish deterrence, which obviously had not been shored up by the relatively insignificant responses up until now,” former CIA director and retired Gen. David Petraeus has said. “The reasoning seems to be to show in the most significant way […]

President Donald Trump’s authority to order a strike against Iranian General Qassem Soleimani came from the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists (AUMF) passed in 2002, the White House said. The authorization gave President George W. Bush the authority to order military action against those responsible for the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks in […]

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said on Friday morning that he was briefed about the plan to kill Iran’s top military official, Qassim Soleimani, while later on the same day Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said that President Donald Trump failed to notify Congress about the attack. “I was briefed about the potential operation when I […]

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) issued a warning to lawmakers following numerous public statements made by elected officials in the aftermath of the death of Qassem Soleimani, the Iranian head of the Quds Force, in a drone strike on Thursday. “Predictably enough, in this political environment, the operation that resulted in his death may prove […]

The reason why Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani was killed by U.S. forces on Thursday was because of attacks he was planning against Americans—not because of attacks he carried out in the past, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said on Friday. Soleimani, who headed the powerful Quds Force in the Revolutionary Guards, was killed in an airstrike […]

The killing of Qassem Soleimani, the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force, by the United States on Jan. 2 is an escalation of proxy war in the Middle East and an indication of a stricter stance against Iran, according to regional and national experts. “From now on, Washington will deal with Tehran’s malice […]

Iran understands that President Donald Trump will take “swift and decisive” action after the killing of Qassem Soleimani, commander of Iran’s Quds force, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said. “I think the Iranian leadership understands that President Trump will take action. We’ve made this clear for months. When I was the CIA director, we made […]

The U.S. State Department updated its travel warning for Iraq advising Americans against traveling to the region a day before President Donald Trump authorized strikes that killed the Iranian regime’s top military official, Qassim Soleimani (also Qassem Soleimani), near Baghdad International Airport. The update renewed the travel advisory level to “Level 4: Do Not Travel” […]

The Department of Defense confirmed that the U.S. military killed the Iranian regime’s top military general Qassem Soleimani at the direction of President Donald Trump. Soleimani, the head of Iran’s elite Quds Force, was killed by a U.S. airstrike near Baghdad International Airport early Friday morning local time. The strikes came after reports that at least […]

The Iranian regime’s top military official, Qassim Soleimani (also Qassem Soleimani), was killed following reports of at least three Katyusha rocket strikes on an Iraqi military base and drone strikes near Baghdad International Airport early Friday morning. Iraqi TV and three Iraqi officials confirmed that Soleimani, who was the head of Iran’s elite Quds Force […]