Baghdad:
An air strike killed a commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards at the Iraq-Syria border sometime involving Saturday and Sunday, Iraqi safety and neighborhood militia officials stated on Monday.
They could not confirm the identity of the commander, who they stated was killed alongside 3 other males travelling in a automobile with him.
The automobile was carrying weapons across the Iraqi border and was hit soon after it had entered Syrian territory, two Iraqi safety officials separately stated.
Iran-backed Iraqi paramilitary groups helped retrieve the bodies, the two officials stated, without the need of elaborating or providing the precise time of the incident.
Local military and militia sources confirmed the account, while Reuters was unable to confirm independently that an Iranian commander had been killed.
The incident came just days soon after Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was assassinated in Tehran in a killing that Iran has blamed on Israel.
Israel launched air raids against what it named a wide variety of Syrian and Iranian targets in Syria final week, signalling that it will pursue its policy of striking Iranian targets in the area as U.S. President Donald Trump prepares to leave workplace.
Iraqi officials worry a conflagration ahead of President-elect Joe Biden taking workplace for the reason that he is viewed as much less confrontational with Iran than the Trump administration.
Iran-backed Iraqi militias are nevertheless reeling from the U.S. assassination of Iranian military mastermind Qassem Soleimani in January and their Iraqi leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and have vowed revenge against the United States.
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