UK foreign secretary say US killing of Soleimani was act of 'self defence'

UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab defended US President Donald Trump's decision to assassinate Major General Qasim Soleimani as an act of "self-defence". 

Asked during an interview with the BBC on Sunday if the killing was legal, Raab said: "There is a right of self-defence."

"It was General Soleimani’s job description to engage proxies and militias ... to attack Western countries that were legitimately there and in those circumstances, the right of self-defence clearly applies," Raab told the BBC.