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At least 15 people have been killed in an airstrike on Iranian and pro-Iranian militia targets in eastern Syria early on Tuesday, according to a war monitor. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said among the killed was an Iranian advisor, serving as a colonel in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps militia. The war monitor said the colonel, who was not named, was responsible for a targeted communications centre in Deir al-Zour. He died along with his two bodyguards, nine Iraqi nationals who work with the Iranian Revolutionary Guards as well as two Syrians after “unidentified” warplane…