A military adviser in Iran's Revolutionary Guards was killed in an Islamic State ambush over the weekend, according to Arab media reports.
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Hassan Abdullah Zadeh had close ties to the late Quds Force Commander Qassem Soleimani prior to the latter's death in a US airstrike in 2020.
Zadeh was considered one of the most prominent Iranian officers in Syria's civil war, in particular in the battles for Aleppo and the Damascus suburbs. He was a security officer for the area of Sayyidah Zaynab, south of the Syrian capital, and was later active at an IRGC base near the Syrian-Iraqi border town of Al Bukamal.
Iranian media outlets published photos of Zadeh with Soleimani following the attack.
Iran's semi-official Fars news agency reported that another IRGC member, Mohsen Abbasi, was also killed in the ambush.
According to Syrian opposition sources, the Islamic State group attacked a motorcade of Iranian militias making its way from Deir ez-Zor to Palmyra in eastern Syria. They said around 25 operatives, including a senior IRGC commander, were killed in the attack.
According to Arab media reports, Nizar Abbas Al-Fahud, a Syrian army commander, was also killed in the attack.
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