Iranian revolutionary guard general killed in Islamic state attack in Syria

A senior commander in Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard has been killed by Islamic State extremists on the outskirts of the Syrian city of Aleppo, Iranian state media has reported.

A state television report said General Hossein Hamedani was killed in the suburbs of Aleppo while “carrying out an advisory mission”. The official IRNA news agency read a statement by the Guard which blamed IS for his death.