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Two Iranian military advisors killed in U.S. airstrike in Iraq: IRGC

Xinhua, March 30, 2015 Adjust font size:

U.S. drone strikes have killed two military advisors of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Iraq, IRGC website reported on Monday.

Ali Yazdani and Hadi Jafari were in Iraq to provide advisory assistance to the Iraqi armed forces in their flight against the Islamic State (IS) militants when they were killed by U.S. drone strikes on March 23, the report said, adding that their burial ceremony was held on Sunday.

Iran says it has dispatched military advisors to Iraq and Syria to help in their fight against extremist Islamists and some of its advisors died in both Iraq and Syria.

On Dec. 29, 2014, General Hamid Taqavi, a commander of IRGC, died in the Iraqi city of Samarrah while performing "an advisory mission in the fight against the Takfiri (Sunni groups) and the IS terrorists," according to Tasnim news agency.

On Jan. 19, the IRGC confirmed the death of Mohammad-Ali Allahdadi in an Israeli airstrike on the Golan Heights in Syria that also killed six members of the Lebanese Hezbollah. Endit