Ali Reza Tavassoli

Ali Reza Tavassoli (Persian: علیرضا توسلی; 1962 – 28 February 2015) was an Afghan militant of the Fatemiyoun Brigade.

His first activities as a combatant were during the Iran–Iraq War, when he and many other Afghan Shia Muslims enlisted in a volunteer pro-Iranian militia to fight against Iraq.

Following the Arab Spring in 2011, Tavassoli was appointed by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to command Afghan Shia militants in the Syrian Civil War.

Four years later, while fighting alongside the IRGC, Hezbollah, and the Syrian government in the Southern Syria offensive, he was killed by Jabhat al-Nusra.

[2][4] On 28 February 2015, Tavassoli was killed during the Southern Syria offensive[1] while fighting Jabhat al-Nusra in Daraa, south of Damascus.