Mohammad Reza Sahedi: Iran accuses Israel of deliberately killing top general in Damascus. He was a prominent brigadier general in the Quds Force, which specialized in foreign missions.
The elite unit has several thousand men under arms who are active on the ground, in the air and at sea. The Shiite shadow fighters are seen as the shield and sword of the regime in Tehran.. More than 50 people were killed in heavy air strikes in northwest Syria's Aleppo province, apparently including Syrian officers and members of Lebanese Hezbollah militia.