Ali Reza Tavassoli

Ali Reza Tavassoli (Persian: علیرضا توسلی; 23 September 1962 – 28 February 2015) was an Afghan militant of the Fatemiyoun Brigade. An ethnic Hazara, he was born in Afghanistan and later moved to Iran, where he studied at Al-Mustafa International University. 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. He had later fought in the Afghan Civil War (1996–2001) and also the 2006 Lebanon War. 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.