Up to 4,000 more troops are to deployed to the Middle East to follow on the heels of the 750 that were deployed earlier this week after the riots at the Embassy in Baghdad. The United States is sending nearly 3,000 more Army troops to the Mideast as reinforcements in the volatile aftermath of the …
U.S. Marines with 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines, assigned to the Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force – Crisis Response – Central Command (SPMAGTF-CR-CC) 19.2, conduct live fire drills during primary weapon training in Kuwait, Dec. 8, 2019. The SPMAGTF-CR-CC is designed to move with speed and precision to support operations throughout the Middle East. (U.S. …
The day after general Salamonie was killed, but ayatollah Khomeini appointed a new general. Ghaani was appointed Deputy Commander of the Quds Force in 1997 by the then IRGC Chief Commander Rahim Safavi, along with Qasem Soleimani as Commander. During eight-years of sacred defense war with Iraq he was the commander of IRGC divisions Nasr-5 …
The full text of the message published in the Supreme Leader’s website at Khamenei.ir reads as follows: via Iran official news agency IRNA “In the Name of God, the Beneficent, the Merciful Dear Iranian Nation The great and accomplished Sardar has become heavenly. Last night, the untainted souls of the martyrs embraced the pure soul …
Statement by the Department of Defense JAN. 2, 2020 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. General Soleimani was actively developing plans to attack American …
Statement by the Department of Defense JAN. 2, 2020 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. General Soleimani was actively developing plans to attack American …
Iraqi TV and three Iraqi officials said Friday that Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s elite Quds Force, has been killed in an airstrike at Baghdad’s international airport. Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the deputy commander of Iran-backed militias known as the Popular Mobilization Forces was also killed AP reported. Six others following a US …
Kataeb Hezbollah Will ‘Likely Regret’ Further Provocative Behavior JAN. 2, 2020 | BY C. TODD LOPEZ Airmen assigned to 43rd Air Mobility Operations Group conduct loading operations on C-17 Globemaster III aircraft on Pope Army Airfield, N.C., Jan. 1, 2020. They assisted in deploying elements of the Immediate Response Force mobilized for deployment to the U.S. Central …
