Qasem Soleimani

Middle East 06/30/20, 04:02

An international criminal police organization refused a Middle Eastern court order to detain the U.S. president on the charge of assassinating a controversial Iranian general. Interpol will not help Iran execute an arrest warrant against President Donald Trump for his decision to order a military attack that killed Gen. Qassem Soleimani ...

D.C. 02/14/20, 07:08

Military responses in the Middle East will take longer to authorize after tighter rules were imposed to force the president to seek prior approval from Congress. The Senate passed the new Iran War Powers Resolution that effectively prevents President Donald Trump from making an executive decision about military strikes against Iran ...

Trending 01/16/20, 05:03

No Democratic Party members of a committee responsible for governing the nation's foreign affairs matters could name any deceased soldier who would justify not taking down the controversial Iranian military leader. Democrats' eerily silence when Rep. Brian Mast (R-Fla.) invited all sitting members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee to give ...

U.S. 01/14/20, 06:24

Attorney General William Barr on Monday, Jan. 13, said President Donald Trump had consulted the Department of Justice before ordering the airstrike that took out Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. "Frankly I didn't think it was a close call," Barr told reporters. "The president clearly ...

U.S. 01/10/20, 06:35

A coalition of 43 Republicans in the Senate led by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) introduced a resolution on Thursday, Jan. 9, urging the Senate to express its support of the Trump administration's successful airstrike last week against Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani. JUST INTRODUCED w 42 fellow GOP senators resolution to honor ...

Trending 01/10/20, 06:13

The nation would have regretted not launching a deadly airstrike against a controversial Iranian general, a congressman has warned. Rep. Mike Kelly (R-Pa.) believes President Donald Trump acted with integrity and saved countless lives through ordering a military attack that killed Gen. Qassem Soleimani on Jan. 3. "This is a president who ...

Politics 01/07/20, 14:12

The former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said that only domestic Democratic politicians are mourning the death of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani following the U.S. airstrike last week, while nothing can be heard from China, Russia, and the Gulf members. “The only ones mourning the loss of Soleimani ...

Politics 01/06/20, 21:05

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) has called on Congress to hold public hearings on President Donald Trump’s decision to authorize the killing of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani on Jan. 2. The Pentagon announced that Soleimani, head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ elite Quds Force, a U.S.-designated foreign terrorist group, ...