As the war in Syria intensifies with unprecedented increase in the number of airstrikes by Russia and battle using Iranian and Hezbollah forces on the ground, so is the increase in the number of casualties among the Iranian forces. Another commander of IRGC forces has been reported killed in action in Syria. General Mohsen Gajarian, the commander of an Iranian regime’s Revolutionary Guards armored brigade was killed in Syria, according to the state-run Fars news agency.
“At least 13 Iranians were killed in Syria during recent battles and all of them were IRGC members”, the report added saying all were killed in north-western Aleppo.
The Iranian regime’s forces in Syria including members of Revolutionary Guards, Bassij and mercenary groups from Afghanistan and Pakistan have suffered many casualties while fighting for Bashar al-Assad.
Over 100 IRGC officers and trained forces have been killed over the four months, but only some of their bodies have been transferred to Iran and a large number have been interred in Syria.
On November 30, the NCRI published the names of 16 IRGC generals that had been killed fighting for Assad in Syria
