The US embassy in Baghdad has urged citizens to 'depart Iraq immediately' after the air strike that killed Iranian Major-General Qasem Soleimani
The US has killed Iranian Major-General Qasem Soleimani, head of the elite Quds Force and architect of Iran's spreading military influence in the Middle East, in an air strike at Baghdad airport, the Pentagon and Iran said.
"At the direction of the President, the US military has taken decisive defensive action to protect US personnel abroad by killing Qassem Soleimani," the Pentagon said in a statement.US officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said that General Soleimani had been killed in a drone strike.Pictures showed burning debris on a road near the airport.
Iraqi paramilitary groups said three rockets hit Baghdad International Airport, killing five members of Iraqi paramilitary groups and two "guests". Iran, for its part, has absorbed scores of air strikes and missile attacks, mainly carried out by Israel against its fighters and proxies in Syria and Iraq.
General Soleimani survived several assassination attempts against him by Western, Israeli and Arab agencies over the past two decades.
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