SSC CGL 2020 PYQ — Question 38

SSC CGL - 4th March 2020 Shift 3 • General Awareness • Q38

Iranian Major General Qasem Soleimani was recently (2020) assassinated by the US military in ______.

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Correct answer: C

Explanation

The correct answer is Option 3 i.e Iraq

1. Iran’s top security and intelligence commander was killed in a drone strike at Baghdad International Airport, Iraq,  that was authorized by the U.S President, Donald Trump.

2. The commander, Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani, who led the powerful Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, was killed along with several officials from Iraqi militias backed by Tehran when an American MQ-9 Reaper drone fired missiles into a convoy that was leaving the airport.