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Quds Force

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CommanderEsmail Ghaani
Coordinator Deputy CommanderAhmad Sabouri
Founded1980
Headquarters locationTehran, Iran
Branch Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
Engagements Iran–Iraq War
Syrian civil war
1982 Lebanon War
Date of Reg.
Date of Upd.
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About Quds Force


The Quds Force is a unit in Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps specializing in unconventional warfare and military intelligence operations.

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... " The head of Iran s elite Quds Force - the Revolutionary Guards overseas operations arm - Gen Esmail Qaani, declared that Iran will continue to back any anti-US or anti-Israel movement anywhere after the US, to the shock of much of the world, killed his predecessor Qasem Soleimani in a drone strike in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, in January 2020...

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Qasem Soleimani: Why his killing is good news for jihadists

Feb 16,2020 9:56 am

Iraqi militia leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, who died in a strike killed Qasem Soleimani

The Islamic state (IS) group welcomes the fact that the death of the Iranian general Qasem Soleimani , The Head of The Elite Quds Force .

In a statement, described The General decline as an act of Divine Intervention , the advantage of the jihadists. He, however, has not mentioned that to US, carried out the deadly drone strike against Soleimani in Baghdad on 3. January.

President Donald Trump , the decision to assassinate Gen Soleimani unleashed a chain of consequences - was One of The First , the unfinished War against the jihadists.

Almost immediately, the U.S. -led coalition operations exposed to fighting in Iraq. The US and its Allies announced that their most important task was now to fight back.

From a military point of view, they probably had no choice.

Iran and the militias it sponsors here in Iraq has vowed, in revenge for the murders caused by the missile, fired from a U.S. drone on Soleimani vehicle, such as on the left of the airport of Baghdad on Friday.

the US armed forces in Iraq, and the work of the Western Allies , with the help of which you, especially in the line of fire.

It is also very good, and speeds up the recovery from the blows it took, if their "Caliphate" was smashed.

It is also good news for the extremists, the Iraqi Parliament with a motion demanded an immediate American withdrawal from the Country as a whole.

have been trained by the U.S. forces and their European Allies , and advise the Iraqi troops in The Fight against

it was a grim, tough, and over many years. It regenerates from The Ruins of an earlier group, al-Qaeda in Iraq.

A large military operation in 2016 and 2017, it was necessary to end the control over the territory of a balancing act between Iraq and Syria.

Many of the jihadist fighters ended up dead or in prison. But this is not the killing of the organization.

mounting ambushes, money, and blackmail, and in the end more lives.

The Iraqi government has effective elite army and police units, mainly trained by The Americans and their European Allies , the The Fight against.

Since Soleimani, the murder, the US has suspended the training as well as operations. So Denmark and Germany.

The German military trainers from Jordan and Kuwait.

Iraqi forces, most of the risks, which will take place on the earth in operations against IS. But also for the training, you have the important logistical support of the U.S. armed forces, the now impressive down in their bases.

sleeper-cells to continue deadly attacks in Iraq

the militants are celebrating Something Else . When Mr. Trump decided to kill Soleimani you The Spectacle of their enemies, the US President to assassinate One of the other gifted.

In 2014, the jihadists take the offensive, large parts of Iraq, including Mosul, the second largest city.

The leading Shiite cleric in Iraq, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, issued a call to arms in The Fight against the Sunni extremists.

Young Shiite men are volunteering in, were by the thousands, and Soleimani and his Quds Force is a large part of their transformation into armed units. The militias were ruthless, often brutal enemies.

Iran's support for Shiite militias within the Popular mobilization force played an important role in The War against

Now, Iran's support for groups of the armed forces added to the Iraq under One umbrella organization, called the mobilization of the population. The Most prominent leader of the militias have become powerful political leaders.

In The Years after 2014, the US and the militias in front of the same enemy. But the Shiite militias now something of a return to their roots, in The Fight against the US-led occupation after the invasion in 2003.

they killed many American Soldiers helped through training and better weapons supplied Soleimani - that was One of the reasons that President Trump gave the order for The Attack from last week.

Mr Trump, the One -sided nuclear agreement, the Iran in the year 2018, The Americans and The Iranians were spiraling down to the brink of War

demonstrators attacked the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad after the US attacks on Iraqi militia

Before Soleimani was killed, the Shiite militias were already back on the objective of The Americans .

An attack in December on a base in Northern Iraq killed a U.S. contractor at least 25 fighters from a group called the " Kataib Hezbollah killed, was answered by air strikes.

their leader, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, met Soleimani in Baghdad airport and was blasted to pieces, with him in the same car.

In an editorial In the weekly newspaper al-Naba, The Group said that Soleimani and al-Muhandis died at the hands of their "Allies " - a reference to the United States.

she said the enemies were to each other that drain your energy and resources, and ultimately benefit the jihadists.

history has shown that the jihadi extremists, the majority thrive, when the benefits of instability, chaos, and weakened and divided enemies.

This is happen before and there is a good chance that it will happen again.



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Source of news: bbc.com

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