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Iranian commandos deployed to Syria
[Iran Press TV] An Iranian military official says commandos from an Iranian army unit have been deployed to Syria on an advisory mission.Brigadier General Ali Arasteh, the deputy for coordination in the Iranian Army’s Ground Forces, told Tasnim news agency on Monday that the Iranian commandos, from Brigade 65 of the Forces, had took on a mission of advising Syrian forces. Iran maintains military advisers in Syria, where the government of Syrian  Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad Light of the Alawites... is fighting an array of foreign-backed turban forces, including, but not limited to, those of the ISIS terrorist group. Al-Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate, the so-called al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli sh-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... Front, is another one of the groups engaged in brutal activities against the Syrian people and government. Posted by: Fred 2016-04-05 |
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