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Airstrike at Baghdad airport kills Iran's most revered military leader, Qassem Soleimani, Iraqi state television reports — BREAKING: It was not clear who carried out the strike, but the death of Soleimani, the Iranian Quds Force commander, seems certain to send tensions soaring between the United States and Iran.
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Qassim Abdul-zahra / Associated Press:
Iran's Gen. Soleimani killed in airstrike at Baghdad airport — Baghdad (AP) — Gen. Qassim Soleimani, the head of Iran's elite Quds Force, was killed in an airstrike at Baghdad's international airport Friday, Iraqi television and three Iraqi officials said.
New York Times:
U.S. Strike in Iraq Kills Qassim Suleimani, Commander of Iranian Forces — Suleimani was planning attacks on Americans across the region, leading to an airstrike in Baghdad, the Pentagon statement said. Iran's supreme leader called for vengeance. — WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. …
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Andrew Exum / The Atlantic:
Iran Loses Its Indispensable Man — The United States has killed Major General Qassem Soleimani, the commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps's Quds Force. The United States is now in a hot war with Iran after having waged war via proxies for the past several decades.
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Stanley McChrystal / Foreign Policy:
Iran's Deadly Puppet Master — Gen. Stanley McChrystal explains exactly why Qassem Suleimani is so dangerous. — The decision not to act is often the hardest one to make—and it isn't always right. In 2007, I watched a string of vehicles pass from Iran into northern Iraq.
Zachary Basu / Axios:
Republicans celebrate death of Qasem Soleimani — The Pentagon's confirmation Thursday night that Qasem Soleimani, an Iranian military commander and one of the regime's most powerful figures, was killed in airstrike ordered by President Trump set off immediate shock waves throughout Washington.
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The Daily Beast:
U.S. Strike Kills Iran's Most Important Military Commander — Qassem Soleimani, the leader of the Iranian Qods Force, is dead in Iraq, perhaps turning a proxy war into a direct one. — In a drastic escalation of the U.S.' generation-long wars in the Middle East, a U.S. strike on Thursday …
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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE:
Statement by the Department of Defense — At the direction of the President, the U.S. military has taken decisive defensive action to protect U.S. personnel abroad by killing Qasem Soleimani, the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force, a U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization.
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Daniel Byman / Vox:
Killing Iran's Qassem Suleimani changes the game in the Middle East — But has Trump really thought out what comes next? — On Thursday night, the Pentagon announced that the United States killed Maj. Gen. Qassem Suleimani, the head of Iran's paramilitary forces, in an airstrike in Iraq “at the direction of the President.”
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Matthew Continetti / Washington Free Beacon:
Trump Calls the Ayatollah's Bluff — Column: And scores a victory against terrorism — The successful operation against Qassem Soleimani, head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard, is a stunning blow to international terrorism and a reassertion of American might. It will also test President Trump's Iran strategy.
Jake Novak / CNBC:
Op-Ed: America just took out a man many consider the world's No. 1 bad guy — The killing of Iranian Gen. Qasem Soleimani doesn't have the emotional power of the takedown of Osama bin Laden, but taking him out means much more in terms of saving current lives, writes opinion columnist Jake Novak.
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Steve Hayes / The Dispatch:
The Morning Dispatch: Qassem Suleimani Is Dead
The Morning Dispatch: Qassem Suleimani Is Dead
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Frank Miles / Fox News:
Rockets fired toward Baghdad airport, at least 7 dead, officials say
Rockets fired toward Baghdad airport, at least 7 dead, officials say
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Washington Examiner:
Iranian malevolence justified Trump's order to kill Qassim Soleimani
Iranian malevolence justified Trump's order to kill Qassim Soleimani
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Heather Hurlburt / New York Magazine:
What Comes Next After the Killing of Qasem Suleimani
What Comes Next After the Killing of Qasem Suleimani
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Wendy R. Sherman / USA Today:
Attack on US Embassy in Iraq shows Trump is failing. He walked into Iran's trap.
Attack on US Embassy in Iraq shows Trump is failing. He walked into Iran's trap.
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Jon Gambrell / Associated Press:
AP Explains: Rising Iran, US tension after general's killing
AP Explains: Rising Iran, US tension after general's killing
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Marc Thiessen / Fox News:
Trump's Iran strategy is working. Pompeo right to call out ex-Obama team members
Trump's Iran strategy is working. Pompeo right to call out ex-Obama team members
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Jason Leopold / BuzzFeed News:
Robert Mueller's Secret Memos, Part 3: The Documents The Justice Department Didn't Want Congress To See — BuzzFeed News sued the US government for the right to see all the work that Robert Mueller's team kept secret. Today we are publishing the third installment of the FBI's summaries of interviews with key witnesses.
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Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:
Manafort Said Hannity Served as His Trump Backchannel: Docs — The former campaign chairman “understood his conversations with Hannity to be a message from Trump” after he came under scrutiny by the feds, according to newly released memos. — Paul Manafort said he used Fox News host Sean Hannity …
Elena Schneider / Politico:
Klobuchar posts personal-best $11.4 million fundraising quarter — Sen. Amy Klobuchar raised $11.4 million in the final three months of 2019, her strongest fundraising quarter since launching her presidential campaign. — The Minnesota Democrat posted strong debate performances throughout the fall …
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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Ascendant Bernie Sanders turns his focus to Joe Biden as Iowa nears
Ascendant Bernie Sanders turns his focus to Joe Biden as Iowa nears
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Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Democrats are the ones who stand to suffer by delaying the Senate impeachment trial
Democrats are the ones who stand to suffer by delaying the Senate impeachment trial
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John Wagner / Washington Post:
Americans roughly divided on whether voters should decide Trump's fate rather than the Senate — Nearly 6 in 10 Americans think President Trump has committed an impeachable offense, but the public is more evenly split on whether voters should decide his fate in this year's elections rather …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
A deceptively edited video of Joe Biden signals what's coming
A deceptively edited video of Joe Biden signals what's coming
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Andrew Bradford / Deep Left Field:
Congressman Accuses Trump Of Stock Market Fraud And Opens Investigation — The House of Representatives may soon be able to add a new high crime and misdemeanor to the growing list of articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump. — Specifically, Trump is suspected of manipulating futures …
Politico:
Why Democrats say they might not vote to convict Trump — Senate Dems are urging neutrality in an appeal to Republicans who want a fair impeachment trial. — Sen. Jon Tester said Democrats “are waiting for the evidence that's presented in the trial” before making a judgment on President Donald Trump.
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Susan Collins sounds like she's covering for Trump
Susan Collins sounds like she's covering for Trump
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Wall Street Journal:
Police Tracked a Terror Suspect—Until His Phone Went Dark After a Facebook Warning — Faced with strong encryption, law-enforcement agencies in Western Europe turned to Israeli company NSO Group to pursue data on WhatsApp messaging tool — A team of European law-enforcement officials …
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Trump and the RNC raised almost half a billion dollars last year — and still had nearly $200 million heading into 2020 — President Trump's political operation headed into 2020 with nearly $200 million on hand, according to party officials, giving him a financial war chest that vastly outstrips …
Bob Fredericks / New York Post:
Andrew McCabe said he lied to FBI about Wall Street Journal leak — Former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe apologized for lying to agents who spent weeks investigating the source of a leak to the Wall Street Journal that actually came from him, new documents reveal.
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Richard Flanagan / New York Times:
Australia Is Committing Climate Suicide — As record fires rage, the country's leaders seem intent on sending it to its doom. — Mr. Flanagan is an Australian novelist. — BRUNY ISLAND, Tasmania — Australia today is ground zero for the climate catastrophe.
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