Senior Iranian commander killed in Syria

Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) announced that Brigadier Gen. Hossein Hamedani was killed near the Syrian city of Aleppo while advising President Bashar Assad's army. According to an announcment of the public relations department, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants attacked Thursday night and killed Hamedani, who was in charge of the Iranian regime's forces in Syria for the past three years.

Hamedani was a veteran of the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war and was made deputy chief commander of the elite forces in 2005.

Also in 2014, another IRGC commander, Brigadier Gen. Jabbar Darisawi has been killed in Syria.

IRGC are forces fighting in Syria to keep dictator Bashar Assad in power.