Iranian commander, another fighter, killed in Syria

BEIRUT: A commander in Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards and a lower-ranking Iranian fighter have been killed fighting Daesh (IS) in Syria in recent days, Iranian media reported on Sunday.
The Revolutionary Guards, Iran's most powerful military force which also oversees an economic empire worth billions of dollars, have been fighting in support of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad for several years.
An Iranian official told the Tasnim news agency last year that more than 1,000 Iranians have been killed in Syria. Senior members of the Guards have been among those killed. Kheyrollah Samadi, a Guards commander in charge of a unit in Syria, died on Thursday in fighting in the Albu Kamal region, bordering Iraq, according to Fars News.