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General Soleimani and his Quds Force were responsible for the deaths of hundreds of American and coalition service members and the wounding of thousands more,\u201d the Defense Department said following the strike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Months after the strike, Agnes Callamard, the United Nations special rapporteur investigating extrajudicial and summary executions, said the U.S. government had provided no evidence to support the assertion that Soleimani posed an imminent threat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt is hard to imagine that a similar strike against a Western military leader would not be considered as an act of war,\u201d Callamard wrote in a report to the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/07\/09\/world\/middleeast\/qassim-suleimani-killing-unlawful.html?referringSource=articleShare\" target=\"_blank\">according to the New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Soleimani\u2019s killing still elicits strong emotions in the region. On Sunday, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/middle-east-iran-iraq-baghdad-qassim-soleimani-b9b28a97d363a041f11d024cee224865\" target=\"_blank\">hundreds of Iran-backed militia group supporters also gathered<\/a> outside of Baghdad International Airport, the site of the 2020 drone strike, to protest Soleimani\u2019s death and chant anti-American rhetoric.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Protestors additionally called for the removal of the remaining American forces from Iraq, calls that come just weeks after U.S.-led coalition leaders formally ended their combat mission against the Islamic State. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While around 2,500 troops will remain in-country for the foreseeable future, they remain only in an advisory role to Iraqi forces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Reuters, an unnamed U.S. official said the base\u2019s defense system engaged \u201ctwo fixed-wing suicide 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