Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps introduced Saturday that one in all its senior commanders was killed on Friday whereas preventing Islamic State fighters in northeastern Syria.
The actual circumstances of Shahrokh Daiepour’s demise weren't disclosed, however the state-run Fars information company mentioned he had been concerned in coaching fighters from the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah, an Iranian proxy which has been preventing in Syria alongside forces loyal to President Bashar Assad.
Daiepour had served as a commander in the Islamic Republic’s Navy in the course of the Iran-Iraq conflict of the 1980s.
He was mentioned to have been killed in the identical space bordering Iraq the place a large air strike killed greater than 50 pro-regime fighters final week.
#Iran introduced the demise of Shahrokh Daipour, the #IRGC commander for operations in #Aleppo province. #Syria pic.twitter.com/OeQdcRdmqS
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Damascus has accused the United States-led coalition of finishing up the late-night June 17 strike on Al-Hari, a city close to the Iraqi border managed by regional militias preventing in the advanced seven-year conflict on behalf of Assad.
An Iraqi paramilitary drive mentioned 22 of its fighters had been killed in the raid, and in addition accused the United States of finishing up the strike.
The United States has denied any coalition plane had been in the world on the time of the strike.
The day after the assault, a US official additionally advised AFP that Washington “has reasons to believe that it was an Israeli strike.”
Israel declined to remark, however a strike so removed from its border would differ from most different strikes in Syria attributed to Israel, which have largely taken place nearer to Syria’s borders with Israel and Lebanon.
The goal, apparently Shiite Iraqi militia fighters loyal to Assad, would additionally mark a shift for Israel, which has beforehand solely carried out airstrikes in opposition to Iran’s forces and its proxies, in accordance with reviews.
At a cupboard assembly on Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that Israel was “taking action — against efforts to establish a military presence by Iran and its proxies in Syria both close to the border and deep inside Syria. We will act against these efforts anywhere in Syria.”