U.S. Marines reinforce the U.S. Embassy compound in Baghdad, Iraq, on Thursday. Crude oil prices skyrocketed and U.S. stock market futures fell on Thursday night following news that a top Iranian general and an Iraqi militia’s deputy commander were killed in a U.S. airstrike at Baghdad’s airport. The Associated Press reported an airstrike killed Gen. Qassem Soleimani, head of Iran’s elite Quds Force and architect of its regional security apparatus. Also killed was Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, deputy commander of Iran-backed militias in Iraq known as the Popular Mobilization Forces, or PMF, and at least five other people. Late Thursday night, the Pentagon said President Donald Trump had approved the attack, and said Soleimani “was actively developing plans to attack American diplomats and service members in Iraq and throughout the region.” Earlier this week vowed Iran would be held “fully responsible” for the recent attack on the U.S. Embassy in […]