(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 1200 soldiers from Iran's regular army have joined the ongoing fighting in northern Aleppo province, ten days after Tehran announced the deployment of army commandos to help Bashar al-Assad, well-informed source told Zaman al-Wasl.
At least 12 Iranian C-130 crafts were landed in al-Neirab military airport this week carrying about 1200 commandos who were deployed in Aleppo battlefields.
Commenting on the deployment of Brigade 65 to Syria, the commander of ground forces, Brigadier General Hamidreza Pourdastan, said last Monday it was Iran's new strategy to send more advisers in support of Assad.
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.
Four soldiers in Iran's regular army were killed in Syria four days ago, the Tasnim news agency reported on Monday.
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.
"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.
Sheikh Abdullah al-Mouhaisni, top Saudi Jihadist fighting and Shariah Judge of powerful, Ahrar la-Sham Movement, 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.
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.
Al-Mouhaisni said rebels 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. (With agencies)
At least 12 Iranian C-130 crafts were landed in al-Neirab military airport this week carrying about 1200 commandos who were deployed in Aleppo battlefields.
Commenting on the deployment of Brigade 65 to Syria, the commander of ground forces, Brigadier General Hamidreza Pourdastan, said last Monday it was Iran's new strategy to send more advisers in support of Assad.
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.
Four soldiers in Iran's regular army were killed in Syria four days ago, the Tasnim news agency reported on Monday.
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.
"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.
Sheikh Abdullah al-Mouhaisni, top Saudi Jihadist fighting and Shariah Judge of powerful, Ahrar la-Sham Movement, 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.
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.
Al-Mouhaisni said rebels 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. (With agencies)
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