Senior Iranian military leader killed in Syria

Iranian General Abdullah Khesrawi, the chief of Al-Fatahin Brigade in the Revolutionary Guards, was killed in Syria, Arabi21 reported Iranian mass media saying yesterday.

According to the Iranian news website Jame Jam, Khesrawi was one of the leaders of the Revolutionary Guards in the Iranian city of Arak. He was dispatched to Syria to take part in the war.

Al-Fatahin Brigades are considered the most important among the Iranian forces taking part in the Syrian war. Its leaders are those who took part in the Iranian-Iraqi war in the 1980s.

According to Iranian reporter Hussein Shamshad, Shia cleric Ahmed Qanbari was also killed in Syria.

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