For many years, Gen. Qasem Soleimani had been one of Iran's most important and influential military commanders, a top figure in the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC). He had played a central role in organizing the defeat of the radical Sunni ISIS forces in Syria and Iraq, and was also the architect of his country's...

I launched my American Pravda series a decade ago next month. My conscious strategy was quite unusual, being almost exactly the opposite of that followed by nearly everyone else covering those same controversial topics. As some of them explicitly told me, they had always deliberately avoided exploring too many different and unrelated historical controversies. Instead,...