Qasem Soleimani

US State Dept. offers $10m. reward for Hamidawi, leader of Iran-backed Kataib Hezbollah militia

The US State Department offered up to $10 million for information on Ahmad al-Hamidawi, leader of Kataib Hezbollah, responsible for deadly attacks on US facilities and the kidnapping of US citizens.

|ByJAMES GENN
Mourners march in the funeral of a Kataib Hezbollah terrorist after a US airstrike on a Popular Mobilization Forces headquarters near the Iraq-Syria border, pictured in Baghdad, March 2, 2026.
THE ISLAMIC Center of America in Dearborn, Michigan, pictured in 2024. Dearborn features prominently in a new National Union for Democracy in Iran report, which argues that the Islamic Republic has spent decades building an institutional ecosystem inside the US.

Inside America: How Iran’s regime built a decades-long influence network inside the United States

IRAN AFFAIRS: The Islamic Republic has spent 47 years trying to root itself inside America, building a network of institutions designed to shape influence in Washington along the regime’s ideals.

|ByALEX WINSTON
A man lifts a placard depicting slain Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani (L) and Iraqi commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis during a Baghdad funeral march rally for Iran-backed Iraqi militias, led by Kataib Hezbollah, December 4, 2023; illustrative.

Senior Iran-backed Iraqi militia official killed, Kataib Hezbollah not confirming circumstances

Kataib Hezbollah confirms the death of Abu Ali al-Askari, a senior member and militia spokesperson, who frequently criticized the US and Israel, while not confirming the cause of his death.

|ByJAMES GENN
Demonstrators gather as Stop the Hate UK holds a protest calling on British Prime Minister Keir Starmer to support the Iranian people, proscribe the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and free Iran from the Islamic Republic, outside Downing Street, London, Britain, January 11, 2026.

Report reveals Iranian soft-power infrastructure in the United Kingdom through charity sector

The 109-page report "Under influence: the Iranian Regime's abuse of the UK charity system and the limitations of oversight" explores a number of Iran-linked charities operating in the UK.

|ByMATHILDA HELLER

New details emerge of Iran’s attack on US in Iraq last year

There were 110 survivors of the blasts that were diagnosed with traumatic brain injuries. Twenty-nine were “injured seriously enough to receive Purple Hearts.”

JANUARY 11, 2021BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
Rocket attack aftermath in Baghdad 521

Wax statue of former IRGC commander Qasem Soleimani unveiled in Tehran

Pictures from the event show family members and officials posing next to the statue and even kissing it, while some participants stopped to take a selfie with the wax figurine.

JANUARY 10, 2021ByTZVI JOFFRE
Wax statue of former IRGC Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani in Tehran

Iran's view of Biden as restrained could lead to hitting Israel harder, INSS

INSS said that threats from Iranian proxies in the North, including Hezbollah and from proxies in Syria, “are the greatest military threat in 2021."

JANUARY 6, 2021ByYONAH JEREMY BOB
US PRESIDENT-ELECT Joe Biden announces Pete Buttigieg as his nominee for secretary of transportation in Wilmington, Delaware, on Wednesday.

FBI probing Soleimani-related ‘threat’ to fly plane into US Capitol

Officials: Transmission picked up by air traffic control a hoax

JANUARY 6, 2021ByYONAH JEREMY BOB
US Capitol building

UAE deny reports of foiling terror attack in Dubai

Emirati intelligence reportedly arrested Iranians who were suspected of plotting to carry out terrorist attacks against Israelis, though the UAE has said this was "wholly false."

JANUARY 4, 2021ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
DUBAI VIEWED from the Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building

Nasrallah: Iran is a strong country, does not need its proxies to attack

“I want you to know,” he said, “Iran does not need its proxies — its friends and allies. It will respond in the right place and time, and however it wants,” he said.

JANUARY 3, 2021ByUDI SHAHAM
Members of Lebanon's Hezbollah stand near a flag with a picture of senior Iranian military commander General Qassem Soleimani, during a ceremony marking the first anniversary of the killing of Soleimani and Iraqi militia commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis in a US attack, in the southern Lebanese villag

On anniversary of Soleimani killing, IDF braces for Iranian attack

Quds Force successor Ghaani vows Islamic Republic ready to respond.

JANUARY 3, 2021ByUDI SHAHAM
Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said on Thursday any U.S. or Saudi military strike against Iran would result in "all-out war"

Iraqis chanting anti-US slogans mark year since Soleimani killing

Washington had accused Soleimani of masterminding attacks by Iranian-aligned militias on US forces in the region.

JANUARY 3, 2021ByREUTERS
WOMEN GATHER at Baghdad Airport, where Iran’s Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani and Iraqi militia commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis were killed in a US airstrike last year.

Iran marks year since US killed Soleimani, amid fear of rising violence

Opinions differ on whether assassination served American interests

JANUARY 1, 2021ByMOHAMMAD AL-KASSIM/THE MEDIA LINE
HOUTHI SUPPORTERS rally to denounce the US killing of Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani and Iraqi militia commander Abu Mahdi alMuhandis, in Sana’a, Yemen, on January 6. The placards read, ‘God is the greatest, death to America, death to Israel, Curse on the Jews, victory to Islam.’

Fakhrizadeh: Hit squads, car bombs and remote-controlled guns - analysis

Three theories – and we'll never really know the truth.

NOVEMBER 30, 2020BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
Servants of the holy shrine of Imam Reza carry the coffin of Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, in Mashhad, Iran November 29, 2020.