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Iranian commander killed in airstrike on Iraq-Syria border

No one has yet taken responsibility for the bombing that killed the IRGC commander.

Al-Monitor Staff
Al-Monitor Staff
Nov 30, 2020
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A member of the Iraqi security forces inspects the damage outside the Zawraa park in the capital Baghdad on Nov. 18, 2020, after a volley of rockets slammed into the Iraqi capital breaking a month-long truce on attacks against the US Embassy. According to the Iraqi military, four of the rockets landed in the high-security Green Zone, where the US Embassy and other foreign missions are based. Another three rockets also hit other parts of Baghdad, killing one girl and wounding five civilians. All seven rockets were launched from the same location in east Baghdad, the Iraqi military said in a statement. — AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP via Getty Images

A commander in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps was killed in an airstrike on the Iraq-Syria border between Saturday and Sunday, Reuters reported.

The commander in the elite Iranian military force was traveling with three other men in a vehicle that was reportedly bringing weapons across the Iraqi border into Syria, according to the outlet.

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