| They might as well be Number Threes, given how quickly they're being knocked off. |
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
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
jihadist group near Aleppo.
Iran supports the regime of Syrian
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
Lord of the Baath...
, and while it doesn't officially send troops to Syria, it has deployed military "advisers" to the war-torn country.