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This seems to be the Yahoo article referenced:
‘Conspiracy is hard’: Inside the Trump administration’s secret plan to kill Qassem Soleimani
Jack Murphy and Zach Dorfman
Sat, May 8, 2021, 4:00 AM·23 min read
In the six hours before Soleimani boarded his flight from Damascus, the Iranian general switched cellphones three times, according to a U.S. military official. In Tel Aviv, U.S. Joint Special Operations Command liaisons worked with their Israeli counterparts to help track Soleimani’s cellphone patterns. The Israelis, who had access to Soleimani’s numbers, passed them off to the Americans, who traced Soleimani and his current phone to Baghdad. (The Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C., did not respond to a request for comment.)