'Big new escalation at Baghdad airport' with a fatal drone strike and rocket launches: report

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Matthew Chapman

January 02, 2020

On Thursday, Washington Post Beirut bureau chief Liz Sly reported a "big new escalation" at Baghdad International Airport, with rocket attacks that have left eight dead, and a drone strike that killed a top Shi'a leader "and his guests":

NBC's Cal Perry reported that one of those killed in the strike may be a senior leader of the militant group Hezbollah — creating the potential for even more escalation:

Also confirmed killed was Qasem Soleimani, a Major general in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of Iran:

'Big new escalation at Baghdad airport' with a fatal drone strike and rocket launches: report

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