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A general in Iran’s Revolutionary Guards was killed in Syria yesterday during fighting between Syrian government forces and jihadists, an Iranian news agency reported.
Tehran has been a staunch ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad during the civil war that broke out in 2011, providing military advisers.
The worst fighting in years broke out in northern Syria this week between jihadists and the army.
“General Kioumars Pourhashemi, one of Iran’s senior advisers in Aleppo, was killed in an attack carried out by takfiri terrorist mercenaries,” Tasnim news agency reported.
In Shia-majority Iran, the term ‘takfiri’ generally refers to jihadists or supporters of radical Sunni Islam.
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