The United States conducted an airstrike that not only took out the Iranian Quds Force (also known as Qods) commander General Qassem Soleimani, but also Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis the deputy head of the Iran-backed Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF).
Quds Force is Tehranโs unconventional arm that operates outside the Iranian borders. Quds is known in Iran as Al-Quds. In Arabic, Al-Quds actually means Jerusalem
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