The flag of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps’ Quds Force
The Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced on February 28 that it had discovered and identified the bodies of five of its missing service members in Syria.
“With the round-the-clock efforts of research team of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps’ Quds Force, the bodies of five Iranian soldiers who had been martyred during an advisory mission in Syria were discovered and their identities after their DNA tests were identified,” a statement by the IRGC’s Public Relations reads.
The five Iranian service members were identified as “Saeed Ansari” from Tehran, “Hamid Mohammad Reza’ie” from Qazvin, “Mohammad Qanbarian” from Semnan, “Seyyed Javad Asadi” from Mazandaran and “Meysam Nazari” from Tehran.
The IRGC didn’t provide additional information on the service members’ mission in Syria or where and when they were lost in the war-tron country.
According to the available information, most of the IRGC’s forces in Syria deployed between the governorates of Homs, Aleppo and Deir Ezzor. Their main mission is to counter the remaining fighters of ISIS and Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the former branch of al-Qaeda in Syria.
