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COMMANDER // 1957–2020

Qasem Soleimani

lieutenant generalPahlavi IranBa'athist Syria6 battles3 wars

Lifespan

1957 – 2020

1960197019801990200020102020Syrian Civil War · 2011Iraqi Civil War of 2014–2017 · 2014-20172017 Iraqi–Kurdish conflict · 2017Battle of Aleppo — July 19, 2012 · Ba'athist Syria · Syrian Civil WarBattle of Baiji — June 11, 2014 · Iraq · Iraqi Civil War of 2014–2017Islamic State invasion of Iraq — June 25, 2014 · Republic of Iraq · Iraqi Civil War of 2014–2017Operation Ashura — October 24, 2014 · Iraq · Iraqi Civil War of 2014–2017War against the Islamic State — June 13, 2014 · CJTF–OIR · Syrian Civil WarBattle of Pirde — October 20, 2017 · Iraq · 2017 Iraqi–Kurdish conflict

Active service 2012–2017 — 6 battles across 3 wars; first command at age 55.

Profile

Qasem Soleimani was an Iranian military officer who served in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). From 1998 until his assassination by the United States in 2020, he was the commander of the Quds Force, an IRGC division primarily responsible for extraterritorial and clandestine military operations, and played a key role in the Syrian civil war through securing Russian intervention. He was described as "the single most powerful operative in the Middle East" and a "genius of asymmetric warfare". Former Mossad director Yossi Cohen said Soleimani's strategies had "personally tightened a noose around Israel's neck".

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Battles (6)

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