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Despite Iran's costly presence in Syria, public support for military involvement in Syria remains strong among the Iranians because of religious motivations and security concerns. [123] From January 2013 to March 2017, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps lost 2,100 soldiers in Syria and 7,000 wounded, according to Iran's veterans' affairs office.
The 35 or so bodies were found in a military hospital in the Syrian capital of Damascus, days after the regime fell. They are believed to be among the last victims of Assad.
Following the fall of the Assad regime in mid-December 2024, graves attributed to the rule of the Assad family, including both Bashar al-Assad and his father Hafez al-Assad, were uncovered by NGOs such as Human Rights Watch along with several academic researchers associated with the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies and the University of Amsterdam.
Rights groups say 140,000 people missing since 2011 are now dead, many of them tortured before being dumped in mass graves. Syria mass graves: Grim task of searching and naming the dead Skip to ...
Members of Syria's White Helmets civil defense work at a mass grave where remains of bodies believed to be those of civilians killed by the ousted regime of Bashar al-Assad were found, in the ...
In Syria, there is a large presence of Iranian troops as well as allies including Hezbollah and foreign militias from Iraq and Afghanistan. The strike took place in the same area where Hezbollah's senior commander, Imad Mughniyeh , was assassinated in 2008.
The global intergovernmental organisation said on Tuesday that it had already collected data from more than 76,200 relatives in Syria, who have officially reported nearly 30,000 missing persons.
Mohsen Hojaji was an officer in the IRGC operating in Syria as part of an advisory team to the Syrian government forces during the Syrian Civil War. [3] On 7 August 2017, ISIL led a surprise attack near al-Tanf, [3] Syria near the Syrian-Iraqi border against a pro-government outpost comprising IRGC military advisers, including Hojaji.