URGENT: Iranian military general killed in battle in Aleppo, Syria
(IraqiNews.com) Iranian websites announced that a General in the Iranian Basij forces, Drisawi Jabbar, was killed by Syrian rebels in the area of Handarat in Aleppo on Thursday.
This news was also confirmed by the group ‘Syrian Reporter’ on its organization’s page on the social networking site Facebook.
The group said that Jabbar was killed in the ongoing battles in the countryside of Aleppo near Handarat. He was once a fighter in the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, and had previously participated in the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s.
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