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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. ... Assad fled to Russia on Sunday after a lightning advance by Syria’s rebel ...
On Monday, reports emerged of more than 20 bodies found in a mass grave north of Izraa in Daraa governorate, southern Syria. Videos from the Agence France-Presse news agency show men digging and ...
The head of a U.S.-based Syrian advocacy organization on Monday said that a mass grave outside of Damascus contained the bodies of at least 100,000 people killed by the former government of ousted ...
On 29 November, unidentified aircraft conducted precision strikes against positions associated with Iranian-aligned forces in the Ma'izila Desert region of Abu Kamal, situated along the Iraq–Syria border. [29] Iranian-aligned militias significantly expanded their military presence and security operations in Abu Kamal amid heightened regional ...
According to Syrian media, on 8 May 2018, Israeli warplanes struck several military bases in Syria where there is a significant Iranian presence. The Syrian government claimed that two Israeli missiles that were targeting a weapons convoy at a base were downed near the al-Kiswah industrial zones close to Damascus. [80]
Locals are reporting more and more locations of mass graves across Syria, and the Syrian Emergency Task Force (SETF), a US-based non-governmental organisation, says that nearly 100,000 bodies have ...
The Iranian Armed Forces, [a] officially the Islamic Republic of Iran Armed Forces, [b] are the combined military forces of Iran, comprising the Islamic Republic of Iran Army (Artesh), the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (Sepah) and the Law Enforcement Command (Faraja). Iranian Armed Forces are the largest in the Middle East in terms of ...