ANKARA, REUTERS, Feb 5, 2016 -A high-ranking member of Iran’s elite Guards Corps (IRGC) and six Iranian Basij militia volunteers have been killed in fighting in Syria, semi-official Iranian media said on Friday.
Iranian media have reported the death of over 100 members of the IRGC and Basij, an affiliated volunteer militia, in the past few months in Syria.
The semi-official news agency Tasnim said IRGC Brigadier General Mohsen Ghajarian was killed in the northern Syrian province of Aleppo, where there has been heavy fighting of late.
“Six volunteer Basij members were martyred (killed) in Syria while fighting near Aleppo,” Tasnim added.
The United Nations on Wednesday suspended the first Syria peace talks in two years, halting an effort that seemed doomed from the start as the war continued to rage without respite.