Syrians offer pastries to celebrate Qasem Soleimani's death Young people in the town of Dana, Syria, hand out pastries to passers-by in the market place to celebrate the death of top Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani, killed in a US strike on Baghdad's international airport. Thanks to the support of Iran and its proxies as well as to the decisive 2015 military intervention of Russia, Syria's President Bashar al-Assad has clawed back most of the territory he lost in the early stages of the war. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES