In 2020, a US drone attack kills Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani, the senior Iranian security and intelligence leader, near Baghdad International Airport in Iraq.
Qasem Soleimani, an Iranian major general, was murdered by the US with a drone attack at Baghdad International Airport on January 3, 2020. Soleimani was murdered by a drone while on his way to visit Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi in Baghdad. Soleimani was the commander of the Quds Force, one of five branches of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), and was regarded as the country's second most powerful figure, second only to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. US officials justified the Soleimani strike as necessary to prevent a "imminent attack," but later clarified the legal justification as being taken "in response to an escalating series of attacks...to protect US personnel,
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