A warm welcome to the Programme Briefing you on all you need to know in global news, business and sport. And you can be part of the conversation. Tell us what you think just use the hashtag bbc the briefing. A us strike force has targeted and killed irans most important military commander. General Qasem Soleimani, the commander of the revolutionary guards quds force. He was killed, along with others, at baghdads airport in an operation the pentagon said was at the direction of the president. It follows just days after iranian backed militia leaders encouraged their followers to attack the us embassy in baghdad. Jon dionnison reports. This is all that was left of a convoy of cars carrying around thes most senior military commander. His killing by the United States will shake the middle east to be called. Qasem soleimani was head of the elite quds force of the Iranian Revolutionary guard and is usually influential figure revolutionary guard and is usually influentialfigure in revolutiona
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