Two IRGC officers killed in Israeli attack in Syria
The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said two of its officers serving as military advisers in Syria were killed in Israel’s attacks on the Arab country.
The IRGC in a statement on Saturday identified the two forces as Mohammad Ali Ataee Shoorche and Panah Taqizadeh, who were killed during an advisory mission in Syria, according to IRNA.
The IRGC said in the statement that the two servicemen have been martyred against a backdrop of the relentless and barbaric crimes the fake Zionist regime has been committing against Gaza, with the blatant support of the US and a number of European governments, which have killed thousands of Palestinians in an unequal and unfair war.
Israel has carried out hundreds of air attacks against targets inside government-controlled parts of Syria in recent years, which have killed a number of IRGC advisers there.
Iran maintains an advisory mission in Syria at the request of Damascus, with the aim of helping the war-torn Arab country get rid of the foreign-backed terrorists, who have been fighting against the Syrian government since 2011.
In 2017, Iran’s advisory assistance helped Syria defeat the Daesh terrorist group.
Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani, who was killed in a US airstrike near Baghdad International Airport in January 2020, played a key role in the defeat of Daesh.
Israel has been a key supporter of the terrorist groups operating on the soil of Syria and has targeted the positions of Iran’s military advisers as well as those of the Syrian Army and resistance groups that have been fighting the terrorists.