Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said in a statement on Saturday that its forces have killed five armed insurgents in the fresh clashes in the Kurd-populated region of Iran's northwestern province of West Azarbaijan.

"In the clashes on Friday night between IRGC's Hamzeh Seyed al-Shohada forces and the counter-revolutionary armed insurgents in the border point of Sarvabad as well as Mahabad region, five mercenaries of global arrogance, including two of their commanders Arash Menbari and Shouresh Menbari, were killed," said the statement issued by the public relations of IRGC's ground forces.

In the operations, sizable number of arms and facilities were seized from them, it said.

There were no casualties on the Iranian security forces, it added.

On June 16, IRGC said that its forces had smashed two terrorist cells in northwestern country and had killed twelve terrorists.

Three members of the IRGC also died in the clashes with "counter-revolutionary terrorist groups," it said.

Reports said that the "terrorists" belonged to the members of outlawed "counter-revolutionary terrorist groups," including the Kurdish Democrat Party, who had crossed the northwestern borders into the country.
Source:XINHUA