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WASHINGTON, Jan. 2 (Xinhua) -- The United States has carried out airstrikes against Iran-related targets in Baghdad, the capital city of Iraq, early Friday, according to media reports citing anonymous U.S. officials.
Top Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Muhamdis, the deputy top leader of Iraq's paramilitary Hashd Shaabi, were reportedly among those killed in the attack on a Baghdad airport.
A senior Pentagon official told Newsweek that Muhandis and Soleimani, commander of the Quds Force of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps, were killed, pending DNA results that have a "high probability" of identifying the two men as the targets.
The attacke amid high tensions between Washington and Tehran.
