{"id":93288,"date":"2020-01-02T18:47:15","date_gmt":"2020-01-03T02:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.46.6.243\/?p=93288"},"modified":"2020-01-02T18:47:15","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T02:47:15","slug":"irans-gen-soleimani-killed-in-airstrike-at-baghdad-airport-ap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=93288","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s Gen. Soleimani Killed in Airstrike at Baghdad Airport (AP)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Baghdad (AP) \u2014 Gen. Qassim Soleimani, the head of Iran\u2019s elite Quds Force, was killed in an airstrike at Baghdad\u2019s international airport Friday, Iraqi television and three Iraqi officials said. The strike also killed Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the deputy commander of Iran-backed militias known as the Popular Mobilization Forces, or PMF, the officials said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/5597ff0f046a67805cc233d5933a53ed\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1829\" src=\"http:\/\/americanherald.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/800.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Their deaths are a potential turning point in the Middle East and are expected to draw severe retaliation from Iran and the forces it backs in the Middle East against Israel and American interests.<\/p>\n<p>The PMF blamed the United States for an attack at Baghdad International Airport Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baghdad (AP) \u2014 Gen. Qassim Soleimani, the head of Iran\u2019s elite Quds Force, was killed in an airstrike at Baghdad\u2019s international airport Friday, Iraqi television and three Iraqi officials said. The strike also killed Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the deputy commander of Iran-backed militias known as the Popular Mobilization Forces, or PMF, the officials said. Their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-government","category-news","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/800.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/93289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}