Iranian general killed by sniper bullet in Iraq

A sniper killed an Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander who was training Iraqi troops and Shia 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 killed by snipers hiding behind a power transformer in Samarra, an embattled city north of Baghdad and home to holy Shia shrines, they said, quoting a Revolutionary Guards' statement.
Several people with him were wounded in the rain of sniper fire, they said.
"Taqavi became a martyr while fulfilling his duty as a military adviser in the fight against Daesh (IS) revisionist terrorists, a glorious end to a long valuable service to advance the cause of (Iran's 1979) Islamic revolution." said the official Defence Ministry site.