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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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Mohammad Ali Shabani / The Guardian:
Donald Trump's assassination of Qassem Suleimani will come back to haunt him — The Quds force leader had the status of national hero even among secular Iranians. His death could act as a rallying cry — The US has assassinated Qassem Suleimani, the famed leader of Iran's Quds force …
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Washington Post:
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.
Axios:
The U.S. takes a war footing against Iran after Soleimani strike — President Trump, after warning three days ago that Iran would pay “a very BIG PRICE,” authorized a drone strike at Baghdad International Airport that killed Iran's top general and second most powerful official, Qasem Soleimani.
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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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Michael Doran / New York Times:
Trump's Ground Game Against Iran — The assassination of Qassim Suleimani is a seismic event in the Middle East. — Mr. Doran is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and served in the departments of State and Defense, and on the National Security Council.
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.
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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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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.
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Mehdi Hasan / The Intercept:
Four Years Ago, Trump Had No Clue who Iran's Suleimani Was. Now, He May Have Kicked Off WWIII. — In September 2015, then-Republican presidential candidate Donald J. Trump appeared on the syndicated radio show of conservative media star, Hugh Hewitt, to talk foreign policy.
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi:
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:
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HuffPost:
Top Senate Democrat Received No Advance Notice Of U.S. Strike On Iran General — Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) was not aware of the Trump administration's plan to escalate tensions with Iran by killing Qassem Sulaimani, an aide said. — The Trump administration did not inform Sen. Chuck Schumer …
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Ray Takeyh / Politico:
Iran Loses Its Imperial Strategist
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Steve Hayes / The Dispatch:
The Morning Dispatch: Qassem Suleimani Is Dead
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Matthew Continetti / Washington Free Beacon:
Trump Calls the Ayatollah's Bluff
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Jake Novak / CNBC:
Op-Ed: America just took out a man many consider the world's No. 1 bad guy
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Daniel Byman / Vox:
Killing Iran's Qassem Suleimani changes the game in the Middle East
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The Daily Beast:
U.S. Strike Kills Iran's Most Important Military Commander
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Heather Hurlburt / New York Magazine:
What Comes Next After the Killing of Qasem Suleimani
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Zachary Basu / Axios:
Republicans celebrate death of Qasem Soleimani
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Marc Thiessen / Fox News:
Trump's Iran strategy is working. Pompeo right to call out ex-Obama team members
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Washington Examiner:
Iranian malevolence justified Trump's order to kill Qassim Soleimani
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Jon Gambrell / Associated Press:
AP Explains: Rising Iran, US tension after general's killing
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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.
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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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New York Times:
Elizabeth Warren's Fourth-Quarter Total Is $21.2 Million, Her Campaign Says — Ms. Warren's fund-raising haul for the last three months of the year represented a slight dip and placed her behind three top rivals. — Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts raised $21.2 million …
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Elena Schneider / Politico:
Klobuchar posts personal-best $11.4 million fundraising quarter
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FiveThirtyEight:
Our Poll Finds A Majority Of Americans Think The Evidence Supports Trump's Removal — After the House of Representatives voted to impeach President Trump on Dec. 18, the president's fate is in the Senate's hands. The process for the trial still isn't clear, but there are signs that it will likely …
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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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David Brooks / New York Times:
A Ridiculously Optimistic History of the Next Decade — A fantasy of what could come true. — Looking back at the 2020s from our vantage point in 2030, the first great event was the complete destruction of Donald Trump's Republican Party. As the former Republican consultant Mike Murphy had noticed …
Peter Allen / Daily Mail:
‘Terrorist’ knifeman wearing a fake explosive vest is shot dead in Paris after stabbing four people, killing one and leaving two more ‘critical’ — An alleged terrorist stabbed one person to death in Paris this afternoon and wounded four others with knives before he was shot dead by police.
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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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