Airstrike. His close ally the deputy head of hush those xabi iranian backed Iraqi Militia the 100 was also killed along with other members of his group u. S. Missiles hit their convoy as they left the airport. So the money was commander of the kurds force a unit of irans revolutionary guard responsible for foreign operations for irans Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei so the money was a trusted confidant a member of his inner circle his killing in a targeted u. S. Strike is the most extreme escalation in tensions between to her own in washington in recent years how many warned there will be retaliation. The cruelest people on earth assassinated the honorable commander who courageously fought for years against the evils and bandis of the world sulaimani is martyrdom will make iran more decisive to resist americas expansionism and to defend our islam values with no doubt iran and other freedom seeking countries in the region will take his revenge into her own Senior Leaders met in an
At the governments inability to stop attacks by armed groups. As they were flies over the volcano in the philippines getting a birds eye view of the threat posed by the rumbling craze. Smile have all the days sport including carlos sanfords one madame car rally the spaniard winning the worlds highest profile offroad rally for 8 every time. So we begin with the diplomatic moves ahead of a summit in berlin on sunday to try to end libyas civil war the warlord Khalifa Haftar has met with the Prime Minister of greece turkeys main regional rival but a country thats been excluded from the summit russia and turkey who support opposite sides in the conflict will be at the conference which will try to end the fighting between how fast forces. At the un recognized government of. Both have to expected to be russia is downplaying any chance of a peace deal. The most important thing now is that after the berlin conference if everything goes as planned and the Security Council supports the conclusion
Decisions. Busking for a living venezuelan civil state their countrys economic crisis struggle to build new lives abroad and finally ukraine and progress in separatists completes a prisoner swap after 5 years of war. But 1st the u. S. Says it will not will light further action after launching airstrikes on a shia armed group in iraq and syria but iraqs Prime Minister has called the attack a breach of sovereignty 5 camps belonging to could save his ball over hits 3 in iraq and 2 in syria at least 25. 00 people were killed at the pentagon says its a response to rocket attacks on iraqi bases the most recent killing a u. S. Civilian contractor last week smaller faultiness in baghdad she says these strikes mark a shift in strategy. Well there are quite significant because this is actually the 1st time that the u. S. Actually strikes a target on iraqi soil lets remember not until too long ago the u. S. And the pm therefore fighting against eisel on the same side but of course since then the
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So that we begin in baghdad where thousands of people are attending the funeral procession for those killed in the u. S. Airstrikes targeting Major General custom sort of money on friday the formal funeral for the top iranian commander as well as. The Deputy Commander of the iran backed Popular Mobilisation forces is underway but will later be buried in najaf in iraq sort of on his body will be flown to iran lets go live to samoa fulton whos in baghdad for us and so many thousands out on the streets all seems pretty peaceful right now and theyve theyve actually crossed the river now is that right. These crowds are now marching through an area thats called the japanese which is opposite of the fortified green zone on the other side of the tigris river were seeing huge crowds consisting of people who are wearing civilian clothing were also seeing some people who are wearing military fatigues presumably members of the Popular Mobilization forces and you can see that some of the footage th