When you hit the Baghdad airport killed Iranian General Soleimani
The head of the special forces "Quds" Iranian revolutionary guards General Qasem Soleimani killed In rocket strikes on the Baghdad airport, saying the TV channels " al-Arabiya ", "al-Jazeera" and Sky News.
The head of the special forces "Quds" Iranian revolutionary guards General Qasem Soleimani killed In rocket strikes on the Baghdad airport, saying the TV channels " al-Arabiya ", "al-Jazeera" and Sky News.
Soleimani was in charge of Iranian military advisers in Iraq and led the organization of al-Quds, which is responsible for military and intelligence reconnaissance, but also for subversive activities outside Iran itself and reports directly to Supreme leader Ali Khamenei. US Secretary of state Mike Pompeo in April of last year called Soleimani a " terrorist."
Several of the missiles exploded very close to international airport of the Iraqi capital on Thursday evening. As informs referring to its sources Reuters, the responsibility for the attack took upon their own shoulders the United States.
The Shiite militia of Iraq, "al-Hashd al-SHAABI" announced the death During the shelling five of its members and " 2 guests ". Among them - the chief of Department of public relations of the Shiite militias of Iraq Mohammed al-Jabiri, as well as the Deputy head of the organization, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis.
The Skaynyus Arabia informs that among the dead "with high probability" became one of the leaders of the Lebanese Shiite movement "Hezbollah" Mohammed al-Kasrani responsible in the organization for " the Iraqi dossier ".
according to " al-Arabiya ", the dead left on 2 cars from the airport of Baghdad.
in the end, the attacks also wounded 12 Iraqi military. Baghdad airport is closed after the attack, the flights stopped for a while.
The situation in Baghdad worsened on Tuesday when protesters tried to storm the residence of the U.S. Ambassador. Demonstrations of disagreement was started immediately after the funeral of those killed in the attacks by American unmanned aerial vehicles of members of the Shiite group " Kataib Hezbollah ". The us military used tear gas on Wednesday the attack was over.
the head of Iraq Barham Saleh on Tuesday condemned the incident, calling the protests "an attack on the sovereignty" of Iraq itself.
USA bombed five objects of the Shiite militias in Iraq and Syria "in response to repeated attacks" Kataib Hezbollah " in Iraq bases ". The Pentagon commented that these actions were taken in response to attack traffic on the Iraqi base near Kirkuk, where he died a US citizen and was wounded four American soldiers.
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