A top Iranian commander Major General Qassim Soleimani has been killed in a U.S. drone strike in Baghdad, the Pentagon confirmed on Thursday night following reports of his death on Iranian state television and Iraqi media. Soleimani, who led a special forces unit of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards, has been a key figure of Iranian and Middle East politics. Earlier, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., appeared to confirm that U.S. forces carried out the strike. “The defensive actions the U.S. has taken against #Iran & its proxies are consistent with clear warnings they have received,” Rubio said on Twitter. “They ... (full story)