ISIS kills Iranian military commander in Syria, Iran says

October 10, 2015 04:03

A top Iranian military commander has been killed by ISIS in Syria, where he was advising the Syrian army in its fight against extremists, Iranian state media reported Friday.

Brig. Gen. Hossein Hamedani, a former commander in the Iran-Iraq War of 1980-88, was killed Thursday night outside Aleppo during an attack by ISIS, Iran's semiofficial FARS News Agency reported.

Hamadani was there "to render military advice to the Syrian army and popular forces in their fight" against ISIS, the agency reported.

One of the Syrian regime's strongest allies, Iran admits to having military advisers to aid Syrian government forces in the country's civil war, which has killed more than 300,000 people in four years.

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