On the night of January 3, the United States conducted an operation in the area of Baghdad International Airport to liquidate the commander of the elite unit of the Iranian army – the special forces “Quds” of the IRGC – General Kassema Suleimani and the deputy head of the Iraqi Shiite militia, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, who in Washington is considered involved in organizing the attack on the U.S. embassy in Baghdad on December 31, 2019.- .
