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Mounting Shiite Casualties in Syria
(Washington Institute for Near East Policy) Ali Alfoneh - According to open-source data collected from Persian-language accounts of funerals in Iran, 113 Iranian nationals, 121 Afghan nationals, and 20 Pakistani nationals - all Shiites - have been killed in combat in Syria since January 2013. All of the Iranian casualties served in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, with an increasing number of casualties from the IRGC Ground Forces. The Afghan and Pakistani nationals were members of militias organized by the Qods Force of the Revolutionary Guards. The writer is a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.