Scores of Iranian fighters killed in Tallet el-Eis battles: video statement

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Top Saudi Jihadist fighting in northern Aleppo province said in video statement that scores of Iran's paramilitary militias have been killed in the ongoing clashes of Tallet al-Eis town and neighboring hilltops in the southern countryside.

Sheikh Abdullah al-Mouhaisni, Shariah Judge of powerful, Ahrar la-Sham Movement, said rebels who thwarted the attack had surprised the paramilitary Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps by a series of suicide bombing that left dozens militants dead.

Local Sham New agency said at least 50 militants killed by rebels.

The clashes to capture the strategic Tallet 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.

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 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.