The Wall Street Journal | Gordon Lubold, Nancy A. Youssef and Isabel Coles: Iraqi officials reacted angrily on Friday to American airstrikes against an Iran-backed group on Iraqi soil, contributing to increased U.S.-Iraqi tensions as the two countries attempt to jointly defeat terrorist groups operating there. The Pentagon said Thursday it had carried ...

Reuters - Iraq condemned overnight U.S. air strikes on Friday, saying they killed six people, and warned of dangerous consequences for what it called a violation of sovereignty and targeted aggression against the nations regular armed forces. President Barham Salih said repeated such violations could cause Iraq to unravel into a failed state and ...

Tasnim Secretary of Irans Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shamkhani said there might be links between the US regime's move to assassinate top Iranian commander Lt. Gen. Qassem Soleimani and its recent claims about the attack on its base in Iraq. "In a visit to Iraq, I called on the country's officials to find the domestic traces of ...

Press TV - The United States has carried out a string of airstrikes against multiple locations of the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), better known by the Arabic name Hashd al-Shaabi, only a day after more than a dozen of the Iraqi fighters were killed by airstrikes targeting an area in Syria's eastern province of Deir al-Zour. TheIraqiInterior ...

The New York Times | Annie Karni: In the 10 days since it carried out the drone strike that killed Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani, the Trump administration has been struggling to draft an after-the-fact narrative to justify it. On Monday, President Trump put an end to that hash of explanations. It doesnt really matter, he tweeted, because of his horrible ...

NBC News | Ken Dilanian and Courtney Kube: The Americans were waiting for him. Armed with a tip from informants at the airport in the Syrian capital of Damascus, the CIA knew exactly when a jet carrying Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani took off en route to Baghdad. Intelligence from Israel helped confirm the details. Once the Cham Wings Airlines ...

The Wall Street Journal - The most interesting thing about the letters on the conflict with Iran (Next Steps for U.S. After Soleimanis Demise, Jan. 9) is the varied reactions: Two guys from Maryland gave the technical/government viewpoint, two from the South said we should kick Irans behind, the Californian said, Chill, dudes! and the New Yorker related ...

Reuters - U.S. special envoy for Iran Brian Hook said on Friday it seems that Iran has concluded its retaliation for the U.S. killing of senior Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani. It would seem that Iran has concluded its response in retaliation for the killing of Qassem Soleimani, Hook told reporters. Thats a question for Iran. Im not speaking ...

Press TV - The Daesh Takfiri terrorist group has hailed the recent assassination of Iran's top military commander, Lt. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, by its allied US forces in Iraq, describing the criminal act as a divine intervention made by direct order of American President Donald Trump. In the early hours of January 3, a US drone strike assassinated ...

Press TV - Dozens of countries attending a UN Security Council meeting have used the forum to take a swipe at the US administration for assassinating the Middle East's most prominent anti-terrorcommander General Qassem Soleimani. The Thursday meeting, originally called to discuss the UN Charter, morphed into an hours-long debate featuring several ...

The Guardian | Tom Whyman: Sure, Twitter has a lot of ill-informed blowhards. But dont dismiss on-the-ground voices and those who hold powerful pundits to account On Friday, I woke up to the news that the third world war had started. In the Middle East, a man named Qassem Suleimani, the commander of Irans al-Quds force, had been killed in a US drone ...

The New York Times - A White House briefing angers many in Congress, including at least two Republicans. A classified briefing on the Iran crisis from Trump administration officials on Wednesday did little to convince Democrats that the killing of Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani was justified, and some Republicans were unhappy about the White Houses ...

Press TV - Iran has summoned Brazil's charg daffaires in Tehran after the government in Brasilia expressed support for the US assassination of top Iranian anti-terror commander, Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani. "We inform you that Brazil's charg d'Affaires in Tehran, and representatives of other countries that spoke about the events in Baghdad,...

Euronews | Massoud Shadjareh: The extrajudicial killing of Iranian official Qassem Soleimani and Iraqi commander Abu Mahdi Al-Mohandis by US forces last week will set back Western-Iranian relations by decades, with repercussions not only across the region but across the world. It is difficult for us in the West to understand just who Soleimani was ...

The Guardian | Ed Pilkington: There has been no shortage of US attempts to remove foreign adversaries through highly dubious legal or ethical means The US government is no stranger to the dark arts of political assassinations. Over the decades it has deployed elaborate techniques against its foes, from dispatching a chemist armed with lethal poison ...

Reuters - Muslim countries should unite to protect themselves against external threats, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said on Tuesday after describing the U.S. killing of Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani as immoral. The worlds oldest premier, who has in recent months stoked diplomatic tensions by speaking out on issues concerning ...

TRT World - A US missile strike killed Iranian Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani late Thursday, escalating the Washington-Tehran stand-off and inflaming regional tensions. Two American MQ-9 Reaper drones fired missiles into a two-car convoy that was leaving the airport leaving Baghdad International Airport, killing Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al ...

Press TV - The secretary general of the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah has severely condemnedthe assassination of Lt. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps' Quds Force, and IraqiPopular Mobilization Units' deputy commanderAbu Mahdi al-Muhandis, saying that US soldiers and officers would return home in coffins ...

CNN | Brad Lendon: Iran's vow to strike the US military in retaliation for the killing of its top general presents the Pentagon with a massive force protection problem that events of the past 48 hours -- and past 40 years -- illustrate in American blood. In an exclusive CNN interview on Sunday, Maj. Gen. Hossein Dehghan -- the military adviser to ...

The Guardian | Dan Sabbagh:Tehran likely to seek revenge through proxy militias in Iraq, Syria and Lebanon Iran will feel it has little choice but to respond US assassination of Qassem Suleimani, according to military analysts who expect Tehran to seek a calibrated response even though it risks further provoking an already unpredictable Donald ...