Pentagon confirms U.S. killed top Iranian commander

File photo taken on July 11, 2018 shows the Pentagon seen from an airplane over Washington D.C., the United States. The U.S. Department of Defense announced on the night of Jan. 2, 2020 that U.S. forces had carried out a strike that killed Qasem Soleimani, commander of the Quds Force of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps. (Xinhua/Liu Jie)