https://www.scmp.com/rss/502162/feed Dr Fanar Haddad is a Senior Research Fellow at the Middle East Institute at the National University of Singapore en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com The assassination of General Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps’ Quds Force, comes in the wake of a recent escalation of Iran-US tensions playing out primarily in Iraq, beginning with an attack on December 27 which killed an American civilian contractor. The US blamed Kata’ib Hezbollah (KH), an Iran-aligned Iraqi militia, and carried out air strikes against five KH facilities in Iraq and Syria, killing some 25 KH operatives and wounding dozens more. Iran... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3044896/soleimani-killing-irans-options-revenge-trump-arent-limited-its?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3044896/soleimani-killing-irans-options-revenge-trump-arent-limited-its?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 06 Jan 2020 17:00:20 +0000