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Thursday, August 27, 2015
Top Revolutionary Guards officer dies in Syria – reports
A senior officer in Iran’s Revolutionary Guards has been killed by Syrian rebels near the northwestern city of Latakia, Channel 10 quotes Arabic-language media outlets as saying.
The reports say that Ahmad Hiari died of his wounds in hospital after he was shot by rebels, Channel 10 said.
According to a site associated with the Revolutionary Guards, Hiari was visited by the Iranian ambassador to Syria during his hospitalization.
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