WW III ?

Qasem Soleimani: Why kill him now and what happens next?

By Jonathan MarcusDefence and diplomatic correspondent

• 3 January 2020

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Media captionChief international correspondent Lyse Doucet explains the significance of the attack

The killing of Gen Qasem Soleimani, commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards' Quds force, represents a dramatic escalation in the low-level conflict between the US and Iran and one whose consequences could be considerable.