Zein Kaiyali, Baladi News, Aleppo
Iranian media outlets revealed the death of one of the most prominent officers of "Al-Quds Forces", the external wing of the Revolutionary Guards Corps in the battle of Khan Tuman with dozens of its allied foreign militias in the southern countryside of Aleppo. Sources have confirmed that the body of the general is still missing.
Iranian media reported that the killed officer is called "Shafeik Shafiey" who serves as a top military assistant to Qassem Soleimani, the commander of "Al-Quds Forces". He spent the last three years fighting in the Syrian governorate Aleppo. Reports confirmed that Iranian and regime forces have failed to get the body of the officer from Khan Tuman.
In the same context, militants of Jaish al-Fatah seized control of the town of Khan Tuman on Friday and killed many Iranian soldiers in addition to capturing six of them causing Tehran the largest losses in Syria ever.
Aein Allah Tabrizi, a former commander of IRGC has revealed the death of 1200 Iranian fighters in Syria since 2012, according to the non-governmental News Agency (Al-Talabeh). Tabrizi also talked about the difficulties Iran is facing in Syria saying: "If we don't fight ISIS on the Syrian territories, we will have to fight it in Kurdistan".