Summary
Eight Iranians, two of them Revolutionary Guards forces, have been killed in Syria in recent days after Tehran increased its advisory missions to help Damascus, a guards spokesman said Friday.
Iran is the main regional ally of Syrian President Bashar Assad and has provided military and economic support during Syria's four-year-old civil war.
Sources told Reuters this month that hundreds of troops had arrived since late September to take part in a major ground offensive planned in west and northwest Syria, in the biggest deployment of Iranian forces yet.
Four Iranian commanders were killed this month fighting in Syria, and an IRGC commander was killed in June.
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