(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels thwarted Tuesday regime's attack on al-Eis town and neighboring hilltops in the southern countryside of Aleppo, local reporter said.
The clashes to capture the strategic al-Eis town renewed early Tuesday as regime forces and its allied Shiite militias and fighters from the Iranian army press to capture southern districts of Aleppo to cut off rebels supply routes.
A Nusra Front commander told Zaman al-Wasl that rebels had killed up to 100 militants, most of them were Iranians, Afghans, iraqis and Lebanese in the ongoing clashes.
On Monday, four soldiers in Iran's regular army were killed in Aleppo, the Tasnim news agency reported, only a week after Tehran announced the deployment of army commandos to help Bashar al-Assad in his against Syrian people, Reuters reported.
"Four of the first military advisors of the Islamic Republic's army...were killed in Syria by takfiri groups," Tasnim reported. Iran refers to the hardline Sunni Islamists as takfiris.
Tasnim has named one of them as Mohsen Qeytaslo, a commando, but has not identified the rest.
Tehran is Assad's main regional ally and has provided military and economic support to his fight against rebel groups and Islamic State militants.
To date, most Iranians involved in the Syrian war have been from the paramilitary Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. Iran is believed to have sent hundreds as military advisers.
But an officer in the Iranian army's ground force said last week that commandos from the army's Brigade 65 and other units were sent to Syria as advisers.
The clashes to capture the strategic al-Eis town renewed early Tuesday as regime forces and its allied Shiite militias and fighters from the Iranian army press to capture southern districts of Aleppo to cut off rebels supply routes.
A Nusra Front commander told Zaman al-Wasl that rebels had killed up to 100 militants, most of them were Iranians, Afghans, iraqis and Lebanese in the ongoing clashes.
On Monday, four soldiers in Iran's regular army were killed in Aleppo, the Tasnim news agency reported, only a week after Tehran announced the deployment of army commandos to help Bashar al-Assad in his against Syrian people, Reuters reported.
"Four of the first military advisors of the Islamic Republic's army...were killed in Syria by takfiri groups," Tasnim reported. Iran refers to the hardline Sunni Islamists as takfiris.
Tasnim has named one of them as Mohsen Qeytaslo, a commando, but has not identified the rest.
Tehran is Assad's main regional ally and has provided military and economic support to his fight against rebel groups and Islamic State militants.
To date, most Iranians involved in the Syrian war have been from the paramilitary Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. Iran is believed to have sent hundreds as military advisers.
But an officer in the Iranian army's ground force said last week that commandos from the army's Brigade 65 and other units were sent to Syria as advisers.
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