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24 Jan 2020, 11:54 am
Most commentators have similarly focused on jus ad bellum questions: whether the strike met the requisite standards of imminence, necessity and proportionality and whether Soleimani—the commander of the Quds Force, a military unit within Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps specializing in unconventional warfare—qualified as a legitimate military target under the law of armed conflict. [read post]
17 Jan 2020, 12:24 am
” Washington Post “The operation that took out General Suleimani, the commander of the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, propelled the United States to the precipice of war with Iran and plunged the world into seven days of roiling uncertainty. [read post]
15 Jan 2020, 6:08 am
Soleimani was not a private citizen: He was a major general in the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps Quds Force. [read post]
13 Jan 2020, 9:26 am
Soleimani was a leader of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a branch of the Iranian military that the US has accused of training and funding groups like Hamas and Hezbollah. [read post]
10 Jan 2020, 12:12 pm
” The letter concludes by emphasizing that the Iranian military, and especially the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, “. . . are determined, in line with the rights and obligations of the Islamic Republic of Iran under international law, to vigorously continue the path of Martyr Major General Qasem Soleimani in combating terrorist groups . . . . [read post]
10 Jan 2020, 10:39 am
” Washington Post“A day after President Trump backed away from further military conflict with Iran, a commander of the country’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps declared that Iran would soon take “harsher revenge” on the United States for a drone strike last week that killed a top Iranian general. [read post]
10 Jan 2020, 10:01 am
Soleimani was the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force, a “special squad focused on overseas operations, among other intelligence missions. [read post]
9 Jan 2020, 7:49 pm
“The January 2, 2020, U.S. killing in Iraq of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force (IRGC-QF) Commander Qasem Soleimani, generally regarded as one of the most powerful and important officials in Iran, has potentially dramatic implications for the United States. [read post]
9 Jan 2020, 1:01 pm
Shortly after President Trump announced he would not pursue escalation against Iran following non-lethal missile attacks against bases housing U.S. troops in Iraq, a commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps threatened “harsher revenge” on the United States for the killing of Qassem Soleimani, reports the New York Times. [read post]
9 Jan 2020, 8:54 am
Following Iranian missile attacks on military bases housing U.S. troops in Iraq on Jan. 8, all eyes are on the White House for signs of what President Trump will do next. [read post]
8 Jan 2020, 5:00 am
Soleimani’s Quds Force, a unit of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) that specializes in unconventional warfare, would be a likely source for such retaliation—but Iran doesn’t rely on the Quds Force alone. [read post]
7 Jan 2020, 4:39 pm
," co-hosts Preet Bharara and Anne Milgram discuss the targeted killing of Iranian General Qassem Suleimani, the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force. [read post]
7 Jan 2020, 4:08 am
Soleimani was a top Iranian general and the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps's Quds Force, Iran's elite special operations force. [read post]
6 Jan 2020, 3:55 pm
On Friday, the Lawfare Podcast hosted a conversation on the wide-ranging policy implications of the U.S. strike that killed Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ leader Qassem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Mohandes, deputy commander of Iraq’s quasi-official Popular Mobilization Forces and leader of the Iraqi militia and PMF Keta’ib Hezbollah. [read post]
5 Jan 2020, 7:52 am
The drone strike that killed Major General Qassem Soleimani, leader of the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, raises many legal issues, but one of the most significant—at least to the American constitutional order—is that President Donald Trump ordered the strike without so much as informing Democratic leadership in Congress, disregarding Congress’s essential role in initiating war. [read post]
5 Jan 2020, 6:07 am
Unlike threats following the deaths of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Soleimani's Quds Force—a component of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)—and some Iranian proxy actors enjoy the resources of a nation-state. [read post]
3 Jan 2020, 2:49 pm
I find it hard to oppose the Trump administration’s decision to target and kill Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s Quds Force within the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps organization. [read post]
3 Jan 2020, 1:59 pm
Qassem Soleimani, who led the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, came in a carefully worded statement. [read post]
3 Jan 2020, 1:49 pm
” As the longtime leader of the paramilitary Quds Force within Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Soleimani almost has undoubtedly been involved in countless attacks on American forces in Iraq and elsewhere. [read post]
3 Jan 2020, 7:35 am
Suleimani, leader of the US-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps and top commander of Iranian security and intelligence operations, was hit by the drone strike while being driven to the Baghdad International Airport by local allies of the Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF). [read post]
