BEIRUT (Reuters) - An Iranian military commander has been killed in Syria by rebels fighting Tehran's ally President Bashar al-Assad, Iran said on Thursday, describing the dead man as a Revolutionary Guard.
The rebels accuse the elite corps of sending forces to help Assad crush their 22-month-old uprising - a charge denied by the Islamic republic, whose Shi'ite form of the religion is anathema to many of the Sunni Muslim rebels battling to topple Assad.
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