BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A senior commander of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) was killed fighting Islamic State west of the Iraqi city of Mosul, the Tehran-based Tasnim news agency reported on Saturday.
It is the first time Iran has announced the death of a senior commander during the operations launched in October to drive the Islamist militants out of Mosul.
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