Four Years Ago, Trump Had No Clue Who Iran's Suleimani Was.  Now He May Have Kicked Off WWIII.  —  President Donald Trump makes a video call to the troops stationed worldwide at the Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., on Dec. 24, 2019.  —  Photo: Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images

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 …

The Killing of Qassem Suleimani Is Tantamount to an Act of War  —  On orders from President Trump, the United States killed Major General Qassem Suleimani, the leader of Iran's élite Quds Force and the mastermind of its military operations across the Middle East, in an overnight air strike at Baghdad's International Airport.

Trump's Strike Has Drawn A Sharp Line Between The Democrats Running For President  —  The Democratic presidential candidates have split into an anti-war camp, led by Bernie Sanders, and a set of more nuanced responses to the killing of a key Iranian official, a rare and sharp contrast inside …

Security Alert - U.S. Embassy Baghdad, Iraq, January 3, 2020  —  Home الصفح ة الرئي سية |  Security Alert - U.S. Embassy Baghdad, Iraq, January 3, 2020  —  Event: Due to heightened tensions in Iraq and the region …

Killing Soleimani Was Worse Than a Crime  —  There was a case for killing Major General Qassem Soleimani.  For two decades, as the commander of the Revolutionary Guards' Quds Force, he executed Iran's long game of strategic depth in the Middle East—arming and guiding proxy militias in Lebanon …

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 …

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 …

Trump says Iranian should have been ‘taken out’ years ago  —  PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump said Friday that the targeted killing of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani was ordered because he was “plotting to kill” many Americans.  —  In his first comments since the early Friday strike …

Iran Options Seem Narrow as It Seeks to Avenge Slain General  — Supreme leader has vowed to retaliate against U.S. killing  — Tehran can't risk all-out war, according to strategists  —  Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei threatened “severe retaliation” against the U.S …

Trump's Iran strike demands a serious response from Democrats  —  President Trump's decision to order the assassination of Iranian Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani, a major escalation that could unleash all sorts of bloody and terrifying consequences, should prompt Democrats to do two things without delay.

Iranian General Traveled With Impunity, Until U.S. Drones Found Him  —  President Trump's decision to kill General Suleimani was one that his predecessors had rejected, fearing it would lead to war.  —  WASHINGTON — One night in January 2007, American Special Operations commandos tracked …

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.