Iraq Crisis Brief: What You Need to Know Following the Death of

Iraq Crisis Brief: What You Need to Know Following the Death of Iranian IRGC Quds Force Commander Soleimani

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The U.S. killed Iranian Quds Force Commander Qassem Soleimani in a drone strike on 03 JAN. This follows a proxy attack on the U.S. embassy in Baghdad, the killing of an American contractor, and a months-long escalation in rocket attacks on U.S. interests in Iraq and across the Middle East. Iran experts Nicholas Carl and Kyra Rauschenbach of AEI’s Critical Threats Project and Iraq experts Brandon Wallace and Katherine Lawlor of ISW brief what you need to know to make sense of the coming news cycle.

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