10/27/2015

Iran’s Syria Aid Deepens as It Jockeys for Role in Talks

Syrian government soldiers near Aleppo.

Iran has extended its military support to Syria to include training, recruitment assistance and help to revamp its army, following a request from President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, a senior Iranian military official said.

“The army has been involved for four years in a draining war, it needs a structural change,” Brigadier General Hossein Salami, deputy head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, said in an interview broadcast late Monday cited by Tasnim news agency. Iran has provided strategic and operational advice, including training on maintaining and repairing equipment, he said.  Read more

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