(Long War Journal) Bill Roggio and Caleb Weiss - An Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) military commander was killed fighting the Islamic State in Iraq's Anbar province, according to reports in the Iranian press. The commander, Jassem Nouri, was reportedly killed on May 28 while fighting against the Islamic State near Ramadi. The Islamic State defeated the Iraqi military in Ramadi and drove it out of the city on May 17. The presence of Iranian military advisers in Anbar should come as no surprise. Several Iranian-backed militias are leading the fight in the province, a predominately Sunni Muslim area of Iraq.
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