Bomb kills Iran Guards colonel in Syria: Media

Tehran blames Israel

A colonel in Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps was killed by an improvised bomb near the Syrian capital Damascus, Iranian media reported on Wednesday, blaming Israel. “Colonel Davoud Jafari, one of Iran's military advisers in Syria and a member of the Guards' aerospace arm, was killed with a makeshift bomb planted by the roadside,” the Tasnim news agency reported, citing a statement from the Guards. It said Jafari was killed on Monday. Iran has long backed Syrian President Bashar Al Assad's government in the country's grinding civil war. Assad is also backed by the military wing of Hezbollah as well as by Russian forces. Iran says it has no troops in Syria but IRGC military “advisers”. — afp