Middle East for the day

Time has an Associated Press article about an Iranian general, killed in Syria:

Tehran has confirmed that an Iranian general was among the seven killed in what the Lebanese militant Hizballah group has described as an Israeli airstrike in Syria.
The confirmation came in a statement published on the website of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.
It says Iranian General Mohammad Ali Allahdadi was killed in a strike in the Golan Heights, which also killed six Hizballah fighters, including the son of a top Hizballah operative assassinated in 2008 in Damascus, Syria.
The statement says General Allahdadi was on assignment in Syria, giving “crucial advice” to Syrians fighting terrorists, a reference to Sunni rebels and Islamic extremists.
It says Allahdadi will be buried in the coming days.

Rico says wrong place, wrong time... (But Rico says that, while we're stepping in the Shi'ite, he has always preferred the Hezbollah transliteration.)