Iraq media: Top Iranian general reportedly killed in Baghdad airstrike, days after US embassy siege

• Two military leaders, including Iran's elite Quds force commander, Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, were killed in an airstrike in Iraq on Thursday afternoon, according to local media reports.
• It was not immediately clear who conducted the airstrike. US Central Command, the combatant command operating in the region, said it had no information available as of Thursday evening.
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Two military leaders, including Iran's elite Quds force chief, Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, were killed in an airstrike in Iraq on Thursday afternoon, according to Iraqi state television.

Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the leader of the Shiite Iran-backed militia responsible for the assault on the US embassy in Iraq earlier this week, was reportedly also killed in the airstrike.

It was not immediately clear who conducted the airstrike. US Central Command, the combatant command operating in the region, said it had no information available as of Thursday evening.

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