held a funeral ceremony on Monday honoring a senior commander killed in The commander, Gen. Hamid Taqavi, of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), died in the Iraqi city of Samarrah on Sunday while performing "an advisory mission in the fight against the Takfiri (Sunni groups) and the ...
Iranian civilians and armed forces members carry the flag draped coffin of Brig. Gen. Hamid Taqavi, a senior Revolutionary Guard commander who was killed during a battle against the Islamic State extremist group in Iraq, in his funeral ceremony outside the Guard compound in Tehran, Iran, Monday, ...
State TV said the funeral for Brig. Gen. Hamid Taqavi was held in a Guard compound in Tehran. (File photo: Reuters)/ Iran held a funeral on Monday for a senior Revolutionary Guard commander who was killed during a battle against the Islamic State extremist group in Iraq. State TV said the ...
Iran's Revolutionary Guard says one of its senior officials was killed Saturday while fighting the Islamic State in Iraq. In a statement on its website Sunday, the Guard says that Brigadier General Hamid Taqavi was "martyred" while serving in an advisory role to the Iraqi Army defending Samarra, ...
Iraqi Parliament's speaker Salim al-Jabouri (R) stands next to his Iranian counterpart Ali Larijani speaking during a press conference following a meeting on December 24, 2014 in the Iraqi capital Baghdad./ - Iran's Revolutionary Guard says one of its senior commanders was killed during a battle ...
A senior commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards was killed by a sniper's bullet in the northern Iraqi city of Samarra as he was training Iraqi troops and Shiite militiamen fighting militants of the self-declared Islamic State, Iran says. was a veteran of the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war, was killed ...
Revolutionary Guard Commander Died During Battle With Islamist Group in Iraq/ TEHRAN, Iran—Iran held a funeral on Monday for a senior Revolutionary Guard commander who was killed during a battle against the Islamic State extremist group in Iraq. State TV said the funeral for Brig. Gen. Hamid ...
A sniper killed an Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander who was training Iraqi troops and Shi'ite militia fighting Islamic State (IS) militants in the Iraqi city of Samarra, official Iranian media reported on Sunday. Brigadier General Hamid Taqavi, a veteran of the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war, was ...
TEHRAN, Iran — The funeral has been held for a senior commander in Iran’s Revolutionary Guard who was killed during a battle against the Islamic State extremist group in Iraq. State TV says the funeral on Monday for Brig. Gen. Hamid Taqavi was held in a Guard compound in Tehran. He will be ...
A senior Iranian military commander has lost his life while advising Iraqi troops in their fight against ISIL terrorists in Iraq./ “Brigadier General Hamid Taghavi was martyred during a mission in cooperation with the Iraqi army and volunteers to counter the Takfiri Daesh militants ... in the ...
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s Revolutionary Guard says one of its senior commanders was killed during a battle against the Islamic State extremist group in Iraq. The Guard said in an online statement Sunday that Brig. Gen. Hamid Taqavi was “martyred while performing his advisory mission to confront ISIS ...
Iran is holding a funeral today for a senior military officer who was killed while assisting Iraqi forces battling Islamic State militants. Brigadier General Hamid Taghavi was killed in the city of Samarra, north of the Iraqi capital, the Revolutionary Guard Corps said in a statement published ...
A senior Iranian military officer has been killed while advising Iraqi troops in their fight against the Islamic State group, Iran's Revolutionary Guards said on Sunday. "Brigadier general Hamid Taghavi was martyred during a mission to advise the army and Iraqi volunteers... in the city of ...
A general in Iran's Revolutionary Guards was killed by a sniper while conducting training for indigenous forces in northern Iraq. Brig. Gen. Hamid Taqavi was shot and killed by one or more snipers "while performing his advisory mission to confront ISIS terrorists," , which refers to another name ...
Israeli officials are increasingly concerned that the UN's top criminal court is planning to seek arrest warrants for their military and political leaders on suspicion of war crimes./ Reports suggest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could be among them./ The International Criminal Court (ICC) ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A scuba dive boat captain was scheduled to be sentenced by a federal judge Thursday on a conviction of criminal negligence after 34 people died in a fire aboard the vessel nearly five years ago. was the deadliest maritime disaster in recent U.S. history, and prompted changes ...
- Bitcoin’s tumble is piquing the interest of investors who view pronounced swings in the digital token as a possible precursor for broader changes in risk appetite in global markets./ The cryptocurrency has shed about 4% in the past two days following a near 16% plunge in April, the worst ...
In many southern Lebanese villages, there are no signs of life. People have fled, leaving towns deserted. Israel has been carrying out strikes on southern Lebanon almost daily since Hezbollah - the powerful Lebanese Shia Islamist group - fired rockets at Israel on 8 October in support of Hamas ...
The family of a gay British-Mexican man held in Qatar for alleged drug offences has given further details of what they say was a "honeytrap" operation using the gay dating app, Grindr./ Manuel Guerrero Aviña was approached online by a man called "Gio" and they arranged to meet - but he was ...
Joie Henney hugs his emotional support alligator named Wally, Jan. 22, 2019, inside their home in York Haven, Pa. Henney credits Wally for helping relieve his depression for nearly a decade, says he's searching for the reptile after it went missing during a vacation to the coast of Georgia. ...
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A home health care company failed to protect a visiting nurse who was killed during an appointment with a convicted rapist at a Connecticut halfway house and should be fined about $161,000, federal workplace safety officials said Wednesday. The Occupational Safety and ...
Two human rights groups have condemned an 11-year prison sentence handed to a Saudi fitness instructor and women's rights activist by a terrorism court./ Manahel al-Otaibi, 29, was convicted of charges related to her clothing choices and expression of her views online,/ These included calls for ...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — It was the music that changed first. Or maybe that’s just when many people at the pale brick Catholic church in the quiet Wisconsin neighborhood finally began to realize what was happening. The choir director, a fixture at St. Maria Goretti for nearly 40 years, was suddenly ...
Shohei Ohtani is still just playing baseball after being all but cleared in the Ippei Mizuhara scandal. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)/ If you were curious about what exactly happened to Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani's money after it was allegedly stolen by his former interpreter, ...