Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Commander, Hossein Salami, announced on Thursday the death of a military advisor from the IRGC Aerospace Forces, who succumbed to injuries sustained in an airstrike in Syria earlier this month.
Hossein Salami revealed in a statement that Ahmad Reza Afshari was injured during an attack by international coalition forces in Syria in early August and passed away today in an Iranian hospital due to severe injuries.
Salami added, “He was injured in the first half of August… and was transferred to Iran for treatment. Today, Thursday, he died from his severe wounds,” according to the semi-official Tasnim News Agency.
Unidentified Drone Strike
Last week, an unidentified drone targeted a vehicle near Al-Bukamal on the Syrian-Iraqi border, killing five members of Iran-backed militias, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The Observatory reported that five Iran-backed militia members were killed, and others were injured, some critically, as a result of the drone strike on a military vehicle between the villages of Kashmah and Dweir in eastern Deir ez-Zor near the Syrian-Iraqi border.
Since the start of the Syrian conflict in 2011, Israel has conducted hundreds of airstrikes targeting Syrian forces, Iranian targets, and Hezbollah positions. Israel rarely confirms these strikes, but it consistently asserts that it will counter what it describes as Iran’s attempts to establish a military foothold in Syria.
These strikes on Syria have increased since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip on October 7, following an unprecedented attack on southern Israel by the Iranian-backed Palestinian group.
