BREAKING Iraqi TV: Iran's Gen. Qassim Soleimani killed in Baghdad airstrike
Baghdad — Iraqi TV and three Iraqi officials said Friday that Gen. Qassim Soleimani, the head of Iran’s elite Quds Force, has been killed in an airstrike at Baghdad’s international airport.
The official with the group known as the Popular Mobilization Forces said the dead included its airport protocol officer, identifying him as Mohammed Reda. The security official said the bodies of those killed in the airport attack Friday were burned and difficult to identify. The official added that Reda may have been at the airport to pick up a group of “high-level” visitors who had arrived from a neighboring country. He declined to provide more information.
Story continuesU.S. officials have suggested they were prepared to engage in further retaliatory attacks in Iraq.
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