Iranian Revolutionary Guard General Killed In ISIS Attack In Syria

“We see the funeral announcements all the time of (Iran Revolutionary) Guard members who are perishing in Syria”. The “Iranian side was vigilant, but they gained chances and acted against our national interests”.

Carter is speaking at a press conference in London with British Defense Secretary Michael Fallon.

The terror group ISIS made gains near Syria’s largest city in the last 24 hours, indirectly aided by Russian airstrikes that drove other groups out.

“Among the targets are the communication hubs, command posts, fuel stores and terrorist training bases located located in Raqqa, Latakia, Idlip, Aleppo and Hama”, said deputy chief of staff Lieutenant-General Igor Makushev, in a Moscow media briefing. According to initial reports released by the Iranian state television, Hamedani was shot dead on the outskirts of Aleppo.

“Why didn’t America attack Daesh fighters during their attack?” asked Rami Abdurrahman, director of the Observatory.

French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said today that “80 to 90 percent” of Russian strikes in Syria were aimed at propping up Assad.

The ministry also said it destroyed an Islamic State base and munitions storage set up in a former prison near Aleppo, killing another 100 militants.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says the advance by the extremists is the most significant in months.

A Guards statement said Hamedani had played an “important role… reinforcing the front of Islamic resistance against the terrorists” but was killed “during an advisory mission”.

Brig. Gen. Hossein Hamedani was killed late Thursday, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard said. Several senior Guard commanders have been killed in Syria.

The conflict began as an uprising against Assad’s rule in 2011 but has splintered into a multi-faceted civil war involving government troops, Western-backed rebels, jihadists and Kurdish forces.

Assad is from the Alawites, an offshoot of Shiite Islam.

The Anadolu Agency said Friday that Leyla, 27, died in the attack in the town of Hreitan, in northern Aleppo province, late Thursday.

Tabler says he believes Iran was instrumental in bringing Russian Federation into a coalition to come to the regime’s aid – and planning a two-tiered military comeback campaign to do it.

Leyla, who was from Aleppo, had trained as a computer technician.

But a BBC correspondent in the area says the strikes seem to be mostly hitting rival rebel groups, allowing Islamic State (IS) to push forward.

French Rafale warplanes attacked an IS training camp in their stronghold of Raqqa overnight.

The Pentagon said it would shift its focus to providing weapons and other equipment to rebel groups whose leaders have passed a US vetting process to ensure they are not linked to militant Islamist groups.

Seeking to underline the dangers of the Russian operation, US officials said four Russian cruise missiles fired from a warship in the Caspian Sea had crashed in Iran which drew a swift denial from Russia.