Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced today that 13 military advisors were killed, 21 others wounded in Syria, most of them at Aleppo battlefields; thus raising the number of Iranians killed while fighting radical militants in Syria to 247.

Iran has been militarily and financially supporting the Government of Bashar Assad since the outbreak of uprising in March 2011.

In April, Iran officially declared it was sending troops from the highly-trained 65th Brigade in an “advisory mission” to Syria; most of them have been deployed to Aleppo’s southern countryside.

On May 5th, Jihadi fighter stormed the government-held town of Khan Tuman, killing scores of government troops and Iranian fighters.