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Yet Another Iranian Commander Killed in Syria
They might as well be Number Threes, given how quickly they're being knocked off.
[AnNahar] A senior officer in Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards unit has been killed in Syria, the fourth Iranian commander to die there in the last month, the Fars news agency said Tuesday.

Colonel Ezzatollah Soleimani died during an "advisory mission" near the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, it said.

Iranian media have since Saturday announced the deaths of five Iranians in Syria, bringing the total killed there to 20 since October 9.

Among those have been four Revolutionary Guards commanders, including General Hossein Hamedani, a veteran of the Iran-Iraq war, who was killed by the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
jihadist group near Aleppo.

Iran supports the regime of Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Lord of the Baath...
, and while it doesn't officially send troops to Syria, it has deployed military "advisers" to the war-torn country.
Posted by: trailing wife 2015-11-04
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