The explosion took place while a Russian convoy returned from a "humanitarian mission," according to a ministry statement published by state-owned TASS news agency. Two Russian servicemen were also injured in the incident.
The unnamed general, also a "senior military advisor," died from his wounds after being evacuated, the ministry added.
Russian troops are present throughout the country in support of Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir
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Terror of Aleppo ...
, although the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces dominate Deir ez-Zor, where they regularly carry out operations against the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
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(ISIS).
In July, three Russian and several
Another Russian advisor, Lieutenant General Valery Asapov, was killed in the province three years ago.