The Baghdad Post, 16 June 2017 – An Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps commander has been killed in clashes with the Syrian rebels in Dara’a city, Tasnim news agency reported Friday.

Haidar Jalilund, chief military adviser to Assad regime in Syria, was probably killed in battles with rebels in Syria’s Daraa, the agency said.

Jalilund, married with two children, hails from Karaj city near the capital Tehran. He joined the Iranian terrorists who are fighting in Syria voluntarily.

Earlier this month, the Iranian news agency IRNA confirmed that two members of the Pakistani Zainbion Brigade, linked to the IRGC, had been killed in clashes in Syria, without specifying the exact date or place of their deaths.

Zainabion mercenaries are fighting alongside the Assad regime, most of them from Pakistan’s Kurram tribal region, home to several Shi’ite tribes, including Toure and Bengch.

Iran has sent militias to fight in Syria under the IRGC command. These militias are divided into fighters from Afghanistan under the name of Fatimiyoon, and one from Pakistan, dubbed Zainabion alongside Iraqi Shiite militias and the Lebanese Hezbollah.

The National Council of Resistance of Iran revealed in late 2016 that the number of deaths of the IRGC and its Shiite militias in Syria reached more than 10 thousand people since the start of the six-year-old Syrian revolution