Hossein Hamedani
Iranian MPs arrive in Damascus before joint offensive
A delegation of Iranian lawmakers arrived in Damascus on Oct. 14 in the build-up to a joint operation against insurgents in northwest Syria, and said U.S.-led efforts to fight rebels had failed.
Iran general did 80 missions in Syria, mourners told
An Iranian general killed in the Syrian city of Aleppo had taken part in 80 missions in the war-torn country, mourners were told at his funeral in Tehran on Oct. 11.
Hossein Hamedani of the Islamic Republic's Revolutionary Guards Corps became its highest-profile casualty of the effort to shore up Syrian President Bashar al-Assad when he died Oct. 8.