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IRAN - SYRIA - CONFLICT - FUNERAL
Members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard carry the caskets of Iran's Revolutionary Guards Brigadier General Mohsen Ghajarian and other Iranian "volunteers", who were killed in the northern province of Aleppo by jihadists in Syria, during their funeral procession in the capital Tehran, on February 6, 2016. Brigadier General Mohsen Ghajarian of the elite Revolutionary Guards was killed in the northern province of Aleppo, according to the Fars news agency, which is close to the Guards. He was advising pro-government forces in the fight against the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group, it reported, without saying when he died.

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