Qasem Soleimani

As US ends operations in Iraq, Baghdad celebrates its withdrawal and renewed sovereignty - analysis

Baghdad asked the US to return. Now, in a kind of “no good deed goes unpunished” manner, Iraq is celebrating the US leaving after asking the US for help.

|BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
Supporters of a Shi'ite armed group celebrate the withdrawal of US-led coalition forces from Iraq, ending a military presence that began after the 2003 US-led invasion, in Baghdad, Iraq, September 30, 2026.
Fighters lift flags of Iraq and paramilitary groups, including al-Nujaba and Kataib Hezbollah, during a funeral in Baghdad for five militants killed a day earlier in a US strike in northern Iraq, on December 4, 2023.

Iran’s powerful militia network could expand war - opinion

For the foreseeable future, Iran can continue to rely on this substantial external military power to bolster its own military capacity.

|ByNEVILLE TELLER
A woman walks past a mural depicting Iran’s late supreme leader Ali Khamenei in Tehran in August.

Why Iran’s threat keeps haunting the Middle East - and how to finally break the cycle - opinion

Stop viewing Iran as a hostile player and start seeing the pattern that nurtures the destructive path its people keep finding themselves on, and change that

|BySALEM ALKETBI
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Ivanka Trump targeted in IRGC-linked assassination plot - report

The New York Post reported that an IRGC-trained Iraqi suspect pledged to kill Ivanka Trump in retaliation for the US killing of Qasem Soleimani.

|BySHOSHANA BAKER

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.

A generation of fighters who died by the sword

In some ways it is a tragedy that these men turned their fire and anger against Israel and the US.

NOVEMBER 29, 2020BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
Clockwise from top left: Qasem Soleimnani ,Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Imad Mughniyeh

How the IRGC overtook Iran’s Intelligence Ministry

Move might not be bad for Israel, report says

NOVEMBER 9, 2020ByYONAH JEREMY BOB
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani welcomes Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi as they wear protective masks, in Tehran, Iran, July 21, 2020.

Iran’s IRGC commander vows revenge in message to Trump

Commander Salami says that the US is isolated and declining and that hundreds of Iranian missiles could target it if America strikes at Iran.

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
U.S. President Donald Trump departs after delivering his State of the Union address to a joint session of the U.S. Congress in the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S. February 4, 2020

Book reveals Trump’s Soleimani gamble was right to downplay 'war' fear

Trump correctly gambled that Iran can’t afford a major war and won’t really retaliate for the Soleimani hit.

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
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After a lull in alleged Israel strikes in Syria, the heat has returned

Widespread strikes on Monday come a week after Damascus and Iran sign air defense deal and two weeks after the explosion at Natanz

JULY 21, 2020ByANNA AHRONHEIM
A motorbike burns after an airstrike in this screen grab taken from a social media video said to be taken in Idlib, Syria on July 16, 2019