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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Kremlin Confirms Death Of Another Russian Serviceman In Syria
2016-02-05
[NEWSWEEK] A Russian soldier has been killed after coming under fire by holy warriors in Syria, the Russian Ministry of Defence and the Kremlin have said.

On Wednesday independent news agency Interfax cited a Ministry of Defence source, reporting that a soldier had been killed in Syria. The soldier, whose name was not given, was reportedly killed on Monday after sustaining fatal wounds from shelling by the holy warrior group 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....
(ISIS).

During his daily press briefing on Thursday, Kremlin front man Dmitry Peskov said the serviceman, had in fact been killed but highlighted that the man had not taken part in fighting. He was there as part of a group of experts on Russian military gear.
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