Iran’s Revolutionary Guard says senior commander killed in Syria

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard says senior commander killed in Syria

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps announced Saturday that one of its senior commanders was killed on Friday while fighting Islamic State fighters in northeastern Syria, The Times of Israel reports.

The exact circumstances of Shahrokh Daiepour’s death were not disclosed, but the state-run Fars news agency said he had been involved in training fighters from the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah, an Iranian proxy which has been fighting in Syria alongside forces loyal to President Bashar Assad.

Daiepour had served as a commander in the Islamic Republic’s Navy during the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s.

He was said to have been killed in the same area bordering Iraq where a massive air strike killed more than 50 pro-regime fighters last week.

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