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High-Ranking Iranian General Dies of Heart Disease

FILE-- In this Sunday, Nov. 26, 2006, file photo, Brig. Gen. Mohammad Hosseinzadeh Hejazi, left, attends a military parade in Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)
FILE-- In this Sunday, Nov. 26, 2006, file photo, Brig. Gen. Mohammad Hosseinzadeh Hejazi, left, attends a military parade in Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)
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High-Ranking Iranian General Dies of Heart Disease

FILE-- In this Sunday, Nov. 26, 2006, file photo, Brig. Gen. Mohammad Hosseinzadeh Hejazi, left, attends a military parade in Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)
FILE-- In this Sunday, Nov. 26, 2006, file photo, Brig. Gen. Mohammad Hosseinzadeh Hejazi, left, attends a military parade in Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

Brig. Gen. Mohammad Hosseinzadeh Hejazi, a high-ranking general key to Iran's security apparatus, has died, the Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced on Sunday.

Hejazi, who died at 65, served as deputy commander of the Quds Force of the IRGC. The unit oversees foreign operations, and Hejazi helped lead its expeditionary forces and frequently shuttled between Iraq, Lebanon and Syria.

Born in 1956 in the city of Isfahan, Hejazi joined the Guard after the 1979 Iranian Revolution and came to lead the paramilitary Basij volunteer corps for a decade.

Hejazi took up the position of deputy commander of the Quds Force in April of last year after leading the Guard’s paramilitary forces in Lebanon. Iranian media reported that he joined forces fighting against ISIS in Iraq and Syria.

The Guard statement said he died of heart disease, without providing any further details.

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North Korean Troops Experience Mass Casualties on Ukraine Front Lines, White House Says

A Ukrainian soldier reflected in a car mirror looks on as a Swedish-made Archer Howitzer operated by Ukrainian members of the 45th Artillery Brigade fires towards Russian positions, in the Donetsk region, on January 20, 2024, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (AFP)
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North Korean forces are experiencing mass casualties on the front lines of Russia's war against Ukraine, with a thousand of their troops killed or wounded in the last week alone in the Kursk region of Russia, White House spokesperson John Kirby told reporters on Friday.

The number far exceeds the figure US officials have previously provided.

"It is clear that Russian and North Korean military leaders are treating these troops as expendable and ordering them on hopeless assaults against Ukrainian defenses," Kirby said, describing the North Korean troops' offensive as "massed, dismounted assaults."

The North Korean and Russian missions to the United Nations in New York did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Kirby said President Joe Biden would likely approve another security assistance package for Ukraine in coming days. Earlier this week, Biden condemned Russia's Christmas Day attacks on Ukraine's energy system and some of its cities and asked the Defense Department to continue its surge of weapons to Ukraine.

On Dec. 17, a US military official said North Korea had suffered several hundred casualties while fighting against Ukrainian forces in Russia's Kursk region.

Asked about what ranks the North Korean casualties included, the military official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said it was from lower-level troops to "very near to the top."

On Monday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said that more than 3,000 North Korean soldiers have been killed and wounded in Russia's Kursk region.