What you need to know
- Iran’s military leader killed: Qasem Soleimani, top general and one of the most powerful men in Iran, was killed in a drone strike at Baghdad airport early Friday. The deputy head of an Iran-backed Iraqi militia was also killed.
- Funerals being held: Thousands mourn Soleimani at services in Iraq and Iran Saturday before burial.
- Trump ordered the strike: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the airstrikes disrupted an “imminent attack” in the region that put American lives at risk.
- US deploying troops: The US is sending thousands of additional troops to the Middle East in response, according to a US defense official.
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani visited the family of Qasem Soleimani, the country’s top general who was killed in the US drone strike in Iraq on Friday.
Rouhani said in a statement on Friday that his country would take revenge for the killing of Soleimani.-G|G
