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China Daily | Updated: 2015-01-20 07:56
Middle East
Iran general killed in Israel airstrike
Teheran confirmed on Monday that a general of its Revolutionary Guards died in an Israeli airstrike on Syria that also killed six members of Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. Iranian Revolutionary Guard said General Mohammad Ali Allahdadi was killed in Sunday's strike in the Golan Heights, which also killed six Hezbollah fighters - including the son of a top Hezbollah operative assassinated in 2008 in Damascus.
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