A senior officer in Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards unit has been killed in Syria, the fourth Iranian commander to die there in the last month, the Fars news agency said Tuesday, according to AFP. Colonel Ezzatollah Soleimani died during an "advisory mission" near the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, it said.
Iranian media have since Saturday announced the deaths of five Iranians in Syria, bringing the total killed there to 20 since October 9. Among those have been four Revolutionary Guards commanders, including General Hossein Hamedani, a veteran of the Iran-Iraq war, who was killed by the "Islamic State" (ISIS) terrorist group near Aleppo.