Qasem Soleimani, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Iranian senior military officer
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Place of Birth: Qanat-e Malek, Kerman, Kerman Province, Iran
About Qasem Soleimani
- Qasem Soleimani (Persian: ???? ????????, born 11 March 1957) is an Iranian Major general in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and since 1998 commander of its Quds Force—a division primarily responsible for extraterritorial military and clandestine operations.Soleimani hailed from a humble background.
- He began his military career since the beginning of the Iran–Iraq War of the 1980s, during which he commanded the 41st Division.
- He was later involved in extraterritorial operations, providing military assistance to anti-Saddam Shia and Kurdish groups in Iraq, and later Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in the Palestinian territories.
- In 2012, Soleimani helped bolster the Syrian government, a key Iranian ally, during the Syrian Civil War.
- Soleimani also assisted in the command of combined Iraqi government and Shia militia forces that advanced against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in 2014–2015.
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