The secretary of State talked to Iraq's prime minister and president separately by phone Tuesday on the heels of the American embassy in Baghdad being stormed by an angry mob.

France's top European diplomat said Friday that 'we have woken up to a more dangerous world.' Pompeo fired back on CNN . 'Yeah, well, the French are just wrong about that,'

This is the moment and American guided missile slammed into a convoy carrying Iranian Quds commander Qassem Soleimani, killing him along with four other high-ranking figures.

'The Coalition did NOT conduct airstrikes near Camp Taji (north of Baghdad) in recent days,' said Colonel Myles B. Caggins III, spokesman for Operation Inherent Resolve.

The image (pictured) appears to show General Qassem Soleimani being welcomed into paradise by Imam Hussein following his death in a US air strike yesterday morning.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo spoke to Netanyahu on the phone on Wednesday night, and the following morning the Israeli leader tweeted about 'very, very dramatic things' in the region.

Mike Pompeo has accused European allies including the UK, France and Germany of 'not being helpful enough' over the attack while heaping praise on regional allies including Israel.

Adel Abdul Mahdi (left), Iraq's caretaker prime minister, said he was due to meet with top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani (right) on the day he was killed in Baghdad on Friday.

Kataib Hezbollah, an Iran-backed militia in Iraq at the centre of current tensions between Washington and Tehran, has threatened to attack US air bases in the country in revenge for the killing of Soleimani.

The move to draw up potential sanctions against Iraq came after confusion over the presence of U.S. troops, with Iraqis being sent a 'draft' withdrawal notice by 'mistake.'

Joe Biden delivered a foreign policy speech Tuesday where he laid out why it was impossible to believe the Trump administration's claims that Qassem Soleimani was an imminent threat.

Thousands of people have lined the streets of Qassem Soleimani hometown before the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard's elite Quds Force was laid to rest.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said the strike which saw 22 ballistic missiles fired at two US bases in Iraq was 'not enough' to punish the US while vowing to kick all American forces out of the Middle East.

The US Federal Aviation Authority on Wednesday also barred US airliners from flying over Iraq and Iranian airspace in the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman.

Iran on Wednesday launched more than a dozen missiles against two US-led military bases in response to the US assassination of an Iranian military chief.

Australia could potentially find itself embroiled in another conflict in the Middle East after Iran launched a revenge rocket attack on American air bases in Iraq .

Hundreds of Australian troops will stay in Iraq after Iranian rockets fired on US-led military bases in the country. Australia has several hundred troops deployed to Iraq along with a team of diplomatic staff.

The State Department warned that Iraq's access to its main account at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York could be shut off if the Iraqi government asks American troops to leave.

American soldiers were either flown out of the al-Asad base (left) by 11pm on Tuesday local time or were sheltering in bunkers - waiting until the missiles fell at around 1:30am on Wednesday.

Four Iraqi soldiers were wounded in the attack, two military sources told Reuters. The military sources said the mortar bombs fell on a runway inside the base.

Jerry Holliman, 69, says he was exposed to Agent Orange, has battled cancer and diabetes and that he's now stuck in a Mississippi veterans home feeling abandoned by his country.

No coalition troops were injured in the Soviet-made Katyusha rocket attack on Camp Taji north of Baghdad on Tuesday night.

US-based actor Waleed Zuaiter, 49, takes the lead role in Channel 4's upcoming detective drama Baghdad Central, which is based on a book by American author Elliot Cola.

'Fake News @CNN & MSDNC keep talking about "Lt. Col." Vindman as though I should think only how wonderful he was,' Trump wrote in a tweet on Saturday morning from the White House.

A soldier stationed in Iraq spotted two men breaking into his Illinois garage. Soldier Richard Wharton was 6,500 miles away and using an app on his phone spotted the burglars walking out with tools.

Lance Shingler, pictured, died after being found collapsed at his Birmingham home. He went to memorial services for each of his fallen colleagues and bravely battled a mental condition.

The Ministry of Defence has named the British servicewoman killed in a missile attack on Camp Taji in Iraq as Lance Corporal Brodie Gillon, 26.

Britain has 'the right to defend itself', the defence secretary has warned, after a missile strike in Iraq killed British servicewoman Lance Corporal Brodie Gillon and two others on Wednesday.

Archaeologists have uncovered a sacred plaza in Iraq that was used to appease Ningirsu - a hero-god of war. Some 5,000 years ago, where people held feasts, rituals and animal sacrifices in the pit.

Kim said in the video: 'She made a quarantined section for Kim and Kanye.' She then revealed some rag doll versions of herself and Kanye sitting at a tiny table with a bottle of hand sanitizer.

The 39-year-old captioned the photo of Psalm, 10 months, sucking his thumb: 'My baby boy is so handsome and sweet.'

The 35-year-old reality star has been best friends with the 37-year-old new mother since 1999, so she was thrilled to become an 'auntie'

Kim Kardashian is one of many celebs who are taking the coronavirus pandemic very seriously.

When Kim Kardashian debuted her latex outfits during Paris Fashion Week earlier this month, she had her fans wondering how she squeezed her curves into them. 

The 24-year-old Society Management Model wrote: 'I miss my friends. The sooner we quarantine, the sooner we can get back to our peoples again'

The 22-year-old reality star's two-year-old privileged princess appeared to be wearing all 24 of a $3 package of Trolls temporary tattoos

Kim is also preparing for the premiere of her documentary Kim Kardashian West: The Justice Project. Airing Sunday on Oxygen, it documents her advocacy for prison reform.

The 35-year-old reality star will reportedly celebrate with philandering ex-boyfriend Tristan Thompson, and her family will join remotely from neighboring mansions due to the coronavirus

Due to the coronavirus pandemic the Kardashian clan had to spend Easter apart. And Kourtney Kardashian gave her 89 million followers a little look into her 'quarantine Easter.'

The 22-year-old 'self-made' billionaire complained that King's Hawaiian wasn't her usual brand of buns

The cosmetics billionaire tried out one of Instagram's blue eye filters that she's used in recent days with her friend Stassie Karanikolaou and her daughter Stormi.

Almost three quarters (74 per cent) of people thought that shutting off hundreds of thousands of people in the way that Wuhan has been isolated in China, would be a 'correct' move by the Government.

Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin met with Russia's ambassador to the U.S. amid the steep drop in financial markets Monday.

An owner's amusement at her cat's curiosity turned to panic when the cat managed to get its whole body stuck headfirst in a glass vase in Saransk, Mordovia Republic in Russia.

A Turkish makeover show has gone viral after thanks to a model's dramatic reaction to a hairdresser cutting 30 cm from her hair without telling her. The model fainted on set and was in hysterics crying.

The 27-year-old Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue model showed off her excitement over the arrival of four bottles of Cabernet Sauvignon, by cradling the delivery in her arms and beaming.

Three men, aged 42, 64 and 70, have been found dead over the weekend in at the Hilton Garden Inn hotel in Manhattan that was used to quarantine recovering COVID-19 patients.

NYC photographer Jeremy Cohen, 28, has photographed people hanging out on nearby roofs in Brooklyn. He's seen then painting, dancing, working out, and playing guitar.

The Academy Award-winning actors were once the best of friends, but their friendship fell apart under the weigh of Casey's 2017 split with Joaquin's sister Summer Phoenix.

While pulling back the curtain on Instagram versus reality, Bethenny Frankel shared an ultra-glamorous throwback in a sequined, minidress and another in sweats.