United States confirms Russian Federation missiles crashed in Iran

Gen. Hossein Hamadani, an Iranian Revolutionary Guard commander who was recently serving in Syria as both an advisor to the Syrian government and as an overseer for operations of the pro-Syrian army Quds Force, was killed in Aleppo, said the report, adding that he is considered one of the most important Iranian military advisors.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says the advance by the extremists is the most significant in months. Another Iranian Guards commander was killed in Syria in June.

Jafari listed the other three key “seditions” as the 1980-88 war with Iraq; the landslide 1997 election of former reformist President Mohammad Khatami and the reform movement that was stymied and repressed; and the 2009 mass street protests over the disputed reelection of then-President Mahmud Ahmadinejad that shook the Iranian establishment.

Iran is allied with Russian Federation and Syria while commanding proxies in the country.

France’s Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said French warplanes bombed a training camp in Raqqa. “A very valuable commander and a true believer of Islam and the (1979 Islamic)revolution (of Iran)”, the official said on condition of anonymity.

Moscow denied a USA claim that four Syria-bound Russian cruise missiles fired from the Caspian Sea had crashed in Iran on Wednesday.

There are many factions fighting for control of Syria – ISIS sometimes fights forces loyal Assad and seeks to gain as much territory as it can in Syria, but the group mostly fights nationalist rebels as well as other jihadist groups like the Nusra Front, al-Qaeda’s affiliate in the country.

Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook said Friday Washington would stop recruiting new fighters for its train-and-equip programme and would instead “provide equipment packages and weapons to a select group of vetted leaders and their units” already on the ground.

A commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards working with the Syrian army fighting IS has also been killed.

The Observatory reported a new wave of Russian air strikes in the west on Friday morning on Hama and Idlib, apparently in support of the ground offensive against anti-Assad rebels.

Assad’s longtime ally Russian Federation launched its air campaign in September, saying it would also target IS.

The United States and its allies have been waging a year-long air campaign against Islamic State in Syria, while pushing to diplomatically edge Assad from power.

“Two Rafale jets dropped bombs on an IS training camp”. The British are part of the coalition striking Islamic State fighters in Iraq, but are not conducting strikes in Syria. The conflict has killed 250,000 people and displaced millions, causing a refugee crisis in neighbouring nations and in Europe.