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Fitz Thursday 8 Oct 2015

Fitz Friday 9 Oct 2015

ISIL kills top Iranian commander in Syria

Iranian military says Brigadier General Hossein Hamadani was killed by the rebels near Aleppo overnight.

09 Oct 2015 11:34 GMT | War & Conflict , Middle East , Syrian crisis , Iran , Syria

An Iranian Revolutionary Guards general has been killed near Aleppo, where he was advising the Syrian army on their battle against Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fighters, the guards said in a statement.

The Guards on Friday said General Hossein Hamadani was killed on Thursday night and that he had "played an important role ... reinforcing the front of Islamic resistance against the terrorists".

Iran is the main regional ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, and has provided military and economic support during Syria's four-year-old civil war.

Iran denies having any military forces in Syria, but says it has offered "military advice" to Assad's forces in their fight against "terrorist groups".

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

'Iranian troops in Syria'

In the biggest deployment of Iranian forces yet, Reuters news agency reported last week that hundreds of troops had arrived since late September to take part in a major ground offensive planned in west and northwest Syria.

Iranian politician Esmail Kosari said Hamadani helped coordination between Syrian armed forces and the voluntary forces in their fight against ISIL.

"For years, Hamadani played a very important role in Syria as an adviser ... he played an important role in preventing the fall of Damascus. Then he returned home at the end of his assignment," Kosari told the semi-official Tasnim news agency.

"He returned to Syria for a few days because of his deep knowledge about the area ... and he was martyred in Syria."

Assad's longtime ally, Russia launched its air campaign in September, saying it would also target ISIL. But its planes have also hit other rebel groups opposed to Assad, including groups backed by Washington.

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

Washington has ruled out military cooperation with Russia in Syria, accusing Moscow of pursuing a "tragically flawed" strategy that would force it to limit military talks to basic pilot safety.

Fitz Saturday 10 Oct 2015

assadist gangsters are being blown to smithereens.

another 13th division vid from the tank massacre, TOW missile takes out assadist tank -

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/embed/KO0SAHgAaxA

another FSA unit takes out multiple tanks and what looks like an military truck -

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/embed/woq2g8abVmU

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Niccolo and Donkey Wednesday 14 Oct 2015

Niccolo and Donkey Wednesday 14 Oct 2015

Fitz Wednesday 14 Oct 2015

2 more brigadier generals killed bringing the total to 3 brigadier generals killed in the past week.

Two more Iranian commanders killed in Syria

Latest deaths reported by local media come days after top commander was also killed while helping Syria to battle ISIL

14 Oct 2015 08:37 GMT| War & Conflict , Middle East , Syrian crisis , Iran

Iranian commander Brigadier General Hossein Hamedani was killed just days before Mokhtarband and Hassounizadeh [AFP/Getty]

Two senior commanders of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) have been killed in Syria, according to Iranian media.

Hamid Mokhtarband and Brigadier General Farshad Hassounizadeh died while assisting the Syrian government's battle against ISIL on Monday, reported the Tasnim and Fars news agencies and Press TV.

Their deaths come after another top commander, General Hossein Hamadani , was killed on Thursday night on the outskirts of Aleppo.

Press TV reported that Hassounizadeh was in Syria to "defend the holy shrine of Hazrat Zeinab, the granddaughter of Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him), in the country’s capital of Damascus."

The Islamic Republic denies having any military forces in Syria, but says it offers "military advice" to Assad's forces in their fight against "terrorist groups".

An IRGC statement on Friday said that Hamadani had been advising the Syrian military and defend Shia shrines in the country.

Iran is the main regional ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, and has provided military and economic support during Syria's four-year-old civil war.

Assad's other longtime ally, Russia, launched its air campaign in September, saying it would target ISIL. Its planes, however, have also hit other rebel groups opposed to Assad, including groups backed by Washington.

More than 250,000 people have been killed in Syria's civil war, which began in 2011.

Niccolo and Donkey Thursday 15 Oct 2015

President Camacho Friday 16 Oct 2015

Very interesting that they were able to take out so many high-value targets in such a short span.

Do you think it's a possibility your ISIS heroes are being fed intel by ZOG and the Israeli gov't, like the unwitting ass-puppets they are?

Fitz Friday 16 Oct 2015

it's possible they got the information from someone on the iranian side. There's quite a few ex-baathist iraqi officers in iSiS, including former intelligence. The information could've been obtained by someone in iraqi intelligence.

Niccolo and Donkey Saturday 17 Oct 2015

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/embed/cj0p2s-NmB8

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