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Iranian Revolutionary Guards Quds Force commander Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani. (YouTube screenshot)
Israel shared with the United States three cellphone numbers of Iranian al-Quds Force commander General Qassem Soleimani in the hours before he was killed last January in a US drone strike in Baghdad, according to Yahoo News.
The Saturday report, citing US military and intelligence officials, said Israel provided information to the US military as the hit operation was already underway, with American forces keeping an eye on Soleimani from the ground and skies and liaisons from US Joint Special Operations Command in Tel Aviv working with the Israelis on tracing the Iranian commander’s phones.
Biden Seeks Update for a Much-Stretched Law That Authorizes the War on Terrorism
The legal basis for the war against Al Qaeda and its successors is aging and frayed, but how to replace it has long bedeviled lawmakers.
President Biden is committed to working with Congress to replace a war authorization law passed shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.Credit.Al Drago for The New York Times
March 5, 2021
WASHINGTON President Biden wants to work with Congress to repeal and replace a war authorization law passed shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, White House officials said on Friday. That law has been stretched across four administrations to permit open-ended combat against Islamist militant groups scattered across the world.
Pelosi asks military leaders to prevent Trump from starting a nuclear war in his final days January 8 President Donald Trump speaks during a rally on the National Mall protesting the Electoral College certification of Joe Biden as President on Jan. 6, 2021. Following the event, hundreds of rioters attacked the Capitol building in an attempt to stop the certification. (Evan Vucci/AP) Amid unprecedented turmoil among the nation’s political leaders, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday asked the Joint Chiefs chairman to keep an “unstable” President Donald Trump from launching America into surprise military hostilities in his final days in office.