Qasem Soleimani: Strike was to 'stop war', says Trump
Media playback is unsupported on your devicePresident Donald Trump has said the US killed Iran's top military commander Qasem Soleimani"to stop a war, not to start one".
He said Soleimani's"reign of terror is over" after the strike at Baghdad airport in Iraq on Friday. Soleimani spearheaded Iran's Middle East operations as head of the Quds Force.The killing marks a major escalation in tensions between the two counties.Iraqi state television says there has been another air strike in the country, 24 hours after the killing of Soleimani. However, there has been no comment on this from Washington.
An Iraqi army source told Reuters news agency that six people have been killed in the fresh strike, which hit a convey of Iraqi militia in the early hours of Saturday morning .Speaking at a news conference at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, Mr Trump said of Friday's attack:"The United States military executed a flawless precision strike that killed the number one terrorist anywhere in the world Qassem Soleimani.
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