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#BREAKING Eight killed in rocket attack on Baghdad airport, according to security sources
#BREAKING Deputy head of Iraq's Hashed al-Shaabi military force killed in airport attack: officials
#BREAKING Iraqi state TV says top Iran commander Qasem Soleimani killed in Baghdad attack
Elite Iraqi troops secure US embassy in Baghdad after attack
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📸 The damaged entrance to the US embassy and Iraqi troops standing guard
VIDEO: Paratroopers from the US Army's 82nd Airborne Division deploy from Fort Bragg after a pro-Iran group stormed the US embassy compound in Baghdad
#BREAKING Hashed military force says 'US strike' killed top Iran, Iraq commanders at Baghdad airport
#UPDATE Top Iran, Iraq commanders killed at Baghdad airport - Iraqi paramilitary force says it was a 'US strike' u.afp.com/JvkT
Baghdad airport was hit in a volley of missiles just after midnight, Iraq's military says.

Iraq's powerful Hashed al-Shaabi paramilitary force says it was a US strike
#BREAKING Iran Guards confirm commander Qasem Soleimani killed in Baghdad
#BREAKING Trump tweets American flag after death of Iran Guards commander
#BREAKING Oil prices soar more than 4% after Iranian commander killed
#BREAKING US President ordered 'killing' of Iran Guards commander: Pentagon
#UPDATE #Iran Revolutionary Guards commander Qasem Soleimani is killed in a US strike on Baghdad's international airport ordered by #Trump.

The strike comes just days after a pro-Iran mob laid siege to the US embassy in Baghdad

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#BREAKING Top Iran security body calls urgent meeting after Soleimani 'martyrdom'. Iran Guards ex-head vows 'revenge'
#BREAKING Soleimani killing 'extremely dangerous, foolish escalation': Iran FM
#BREAKING US Congress not notified ahead of Soleimani killing: House foreign affairs chair
#BREAKING Iran supreme leader vows "severe revenge" for Soleimani killing
#BREAKING Iran's Khamenei declares three days of mourning for Soleimani
#BREAKING Iraqis "dancing in the street" after Soleimani death: Pompeo
#BREAKING Anti-regime protesters in Baghdad sing, dance after Soleimani death: AFP
#BREAKING Iran and 'free nations of region' to avenge general's killing: Rouhani
VIDEO: Top Iranian commander of the Revolutionary Guard's Quds Force, Qasem Soleimani, is killed in a US strike on Baghdad's international airport in a dramatic escalation of tensions between the two countries
#UPDATE Iran supreme leader warns of "severe revenge" for Soleimani killing - says US will bear responsibility for the consequences
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#BREAKING Iraq Hashed commander calls all fighters to 'be ready' after US strike
Iraqi anti-government protesters celebrate outside their protest tents in Baghdad's Tahrir Square following news of the killing of Iranian Revolutionary Guards top commander Qasem Soleimani in a US strike
#BREAKING Iraq's Sadr reactivates anti-US 'Mahdi Army' after US strike: tweet
#BREAKING China urges 'calm and restraint' after US kills Iran general
#BREAKING US killing of Iran general risks 'dangerous escalation', says Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi
#BREAKING Iraq PM condemns deadly US strike as 'aggression'
#BREAKING US embassy in Baghdad urges citizens to 'depart Iraq immediately' after strike

📸 Iraqi counter-terrorism forces stand guard in front of the US embassy in Baghdad
#BREAKING Iraq PM says US strike 'will spark a devastating war in Iraq'

📸 A slogan in Arabic reading "Death to America" is painted on a road in the Iraqi capital Baghdad
#BREAKING US killing of #Iran general will 'increase tensions': Moscow
#UPDATE

"US citizens should depart via airline while possible, and failing that, to other countries via land."

The US embassy in Baghdad urges American citizens in Iraq to "depart immediately", for fear of fallout from US killing of top #Iran and Iraq commanders
#BREAKING Avenging killing of #Iran's Soleimani is responsibility of 'resistance' worldwide: Hezbollah
#UPDATE Republican lawmakers quick to back Trump's attack that killed #Iran Revolutionary Guard commander Soleimani.

US Congress complains it received no advance notice of the strike, which raises "serious legal problems"

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#BREAKING Israel PM Netanyahu cuts short Greece trip after Iran commander killing: official
#BREAKING Iraq's top Shiite cleric Sistani says US strike that killed Iranian commander a 'wanton attack'
#BREAKING Britain urges 'all parties to de-escalate' after US kills Iran general
VIDEO: 🇮🇷 Top Iranian commander Qasem #Soleimani was killed on Friday in a US strike on Baghdad's international airport in a dramatic escalation of tensions between the two countries
#BREAKING Iran names Esmail Qaani new Quds chief after Soleimani killing
#BREAKING Iraqi president Barham Saleh calls for restraint after deadly US strike
#BREAKING Berlin urges 'prudence' and 'de-escalation' after deadly US strike
VIDEO: 🇮🇷 Residents of #Tehran react to the death of top Iranian commander Qasem #Soleimani in a US strike at Baghdad international airport. The killing prompted Iran to vow "revenge", dramatically upping the stakes in bitter tensions between Tehran and Washington.
#BREAKING Tens of thousands rally in Iran capital against US 'crimes'
#BREAKING EU president Charles Michel says Iraq violence 'has to stop'
#BREAKING 'Precision drone strike' killed Iran commander Soleimani in Baghdad: US defence official
#BREAKING Secretary of State Pompeo says US 'committed to de-escalation' after Soleimani killing
#BREAKING Israel PM Netanyahu says US has 'right' to self-defence
#BREAKING State Department tells US citizens to leave Iraq 'immediately'
#BREAKING American oil field staff evacuating Iraq: oil ministry
#BREAKING Soleimani was plotting 'big action' threatening 'hundreds of American lives': Pompeo
#BREAKING President Trump says Iran commander Soleimani should have been killed 'many years ago'
VIDEO: 🇮🇳 Hundreds of people in Indian Kashmir shout anti-US slogans during a demonstration in the Muslim-majority region within hours of American forces killing Iran's most powerful military commander, General Qasem #Soleimani
#BREAKING Putin says killing of Iran commander Soleimani risks 'aggravating situation' in Mideast
#BREAKING UN chief says 'world cannot afford' another Gulf war after US kills Iran general
#BREAKING Macron urges restraint, no new escalation after Soleimani killing: French presidency
#BREAKING Assad says Soleimani support for Syria army 'will not be forgotten'
#BREAKING Iran security body vows to avenge Soleimani death in 'right place and time'
VIDEO: 🇮🇷 Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets of #Tehran and other Iranian cities to protest against American "crimes" after US strikes killed a top Iranian commander in Baghdad on Friday #Soleimani
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