{"id":25672,"date":"2020-01-02T20:48:24","date_gmt":"2020-01-03T02:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=25672"},"modified":"2020-01-02T21:55:50","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T03:55:50","slug":"25672","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=25672","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/rockets-baghdad-airport-injuries-reported\">Baghdad rocket attack kills Iranian military leaders including Gen. Qassim Soleimani<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/the-master-behind-the-mask-who-is-irans-most-feared-and-powerful-military-commander\">Soleimani<\/a>\u00a0is the military mastermind whom Secretary of State\u00a0Mike Pompeo\u00a0had deemed equally as dangerous as\u00a0Islamic State\u00a0leader\u00a0Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. In October,\u00a0Baghdadi killed himself\u00a0during a U.S. raid on a compound in northwest Syria, seven months after the\u00a0so-called\u00a0ISIS\u00a0&#8220;caliphate&#8221;\u00a0crumbled as the terrorist group lost\u00a0its final swath of\u00a0Syrian\u00a0territory in March.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In April 2019, the\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/politics\/foreign-policy\/state-department\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">State Department<\/a>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">announced Iran was responsible for killing 608 U.S. troops during the Iraq War. Soleimani was the head of the Iranian and Iranian-backed forces carrying out those operations killing American troops.\u00a0According to the State Department, 17 percent of all deaths of U.S. personnel in Iraq from 2003 to 2011 were orchestrated by Soleimani.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As recent as 2015, a travel ban and<\/span>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/world\/united-nations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">United Nations<\/a>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Security Council\u00a0resolutions had barred Soleimani\u00a0from leaving Iran.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baghdad rocket attack kills Iranian military leaders including Gen. Qassim Soleimani Soleimani\u00a0is the military mastermind whom Secretary of State\u00a0Mike Pompeo\u00a0had deemed equally as dangerous as\u00a0Islamic State\u00a0leader\u00a0Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. In October,\u00a0Baghdadi killed himself\u00a0during a U.S. raid on a compound in northwest Syria, seven months after the\u00a0so-called\u00a0ISIS\u00a0&#8220;caliphate&#8221;\u00a0crumbled as the terrorist group lost\u00a0its final swath of\u00a0Syrian\u00a0territory in March. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=25672\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-moslems-jihadis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25672"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25700,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25672\/revisions\/25700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}