How Trump decided to kill Iran's Soleimani  —  Hours before the U.S. military sent a Reaper drone to kill one of the most wanted men on the planet, President Donald Trump was relaxing at his palatial Florida properties.  In the morning, he played 18 holes at Trump International, his West Palm Beach golf club.

How Trump decided to kill a top Iranian general  —  On Sunday, President Trump's most senior national security advisers joined him at his Mar-a-  —  Lago resort in Florida, where Trump was beginning the second week of his holiday vacation.  The officials told reporters that U.S. F-15 Strike Eagles …

Trump Thinks Attacking Iran Will Get Him Reelected.  He's Wrong.  —  Beginning in 2011, and continuing through the next year, Donald Trump began obsessively predicting that President Obama would start a war with Iran in order to be reelected.  Trump stated it publicly, on at least a half-dozen occasions …

For Trump, a Risky Gamble to Deter Iran  —  The goal was to prove American resolve in the face of Iranian attacks.  Now, American officials have no doubt the Iranians will respond — but they don't know how quickly, or how furiously.  —  President Trump's decision to strike and kill …

Pelosi Statement on Airstrike in Iraq Against High-Level Iranian Military Officials  —  Washington, D.C. - Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued this statement after the Trump Administration conducted a deadly airstrike targeting Iranians and Iraqis at the Baghdad International Airport:

Trump Orders Defense Department To Publicly Confirm Assassination Of Iranian General  —  In a break from long-standing intelligence practices, President Donald Trump ordered the Defense Department to confirm that the United States was behind the missile strike that killed Qassem Soleimani …

Killing a top Iranian military leader was a whack-for-tat move  —  Soleimani was no stateless outlaw like Osama bin Laden.  This U.S. action sets us on a dangerous path of escalation.  —  Like the killing of Osama bin Laden, the strike on Iranian Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani in Baghdad …

With missile strike, Trump opts for escalation and a swing at a ‘hornets’ nest'  —  For a conflict known for extremes of rhetoric - the “Great Satan” and the “Axis of Evil” - the four-decade rivalry between the United States and Iran has been largely defined by calculation and restraint.

Soleimani posted memes antagonizing Trump on social media  —  Iranian Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani, who was killed in a U.S. airstrike in Iraq early Friday, wasn't just an infamous terrorist organizer and one of the regime's most powerful officials — he was also one of President Trump's social media antagonists.

Iraqi militia leader may be among six killed in another U.S. drone strike in Baghdad  —  Six members of the Popular Mobilization Forces, an official Iraqi militia organization with ties to Iran, were killed in another U.S. drone strike in northern Baghdad on Friday, multiple officials told Newsweek.