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Air strike kills IRGC commander at Iraq-Syria border - Iraqi

officials

By Reuters Staff

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - An air strike killed a commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards at the
Iraq-Syria border sometime between Saturday and Sunday, Iraqi security and local militia
officials said on Monday.

They could not confirm the identity of the commander, who they said was killed alongside
three other men travelling in a vehicle with him.

The vehicle was carrying weapons across the Iraqi border and was hit after it had entered
Syrian territory, two Iraqi security officials separately said.

Iran-backed Iraqi paramilitary groups helped retrieve the bodies, the two officials said, without
elaborating or giving the exact time of the incident.

Local military and militia sources confirmed the account, although Reuters was unable to
verify independently that an Iranian commander had been killed.

The incident came just days after Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was
assassinated in Tehran in a killing that Iran has blamed on Israel.

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2020. 12. 29. Air strike kills IRGC commander at Iraq-Syria border - Iraqi officials | Reuters

Israel launched air raids against what it called a wide range of Syrian and Iranian targets in
Syria last week, signalling that it will pursue its policy of striking Iranian targets in the region
as U.S. President Donald Trump prepares to leave office.

Iraqi officials fear a conflagration ahead of President-elect Joe Biden taking office because he is
viewed as less confrontational with Iran than the Trump administration.

Iran-backed Iraqi militias are still reeling from the U.S. assassination of Iranian military
mastermind Qassem Soleimani in January and their Iraqi leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and
have vowed revenge against the United States.

Reporting by Ahmed Rasheed, John Davison and Kamal Ayash in Falluja; Editing by Tom Brown

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