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NICOSIA — Syria has deployed Iranian combat units to recapture a major energy field in the north.

Opposition sources said Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has been summoned to battle Al Qaida fighters in Syria. They said IRGC deployed hundreds of elite troops to expel Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant from a natural gas field in the Homs province.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that IRGC conducted rocket and ground operations against ISIL around the Homs gas field.

The monitoring group said IRGC was called in to help the Syrian Army, which
underwent losses of hundreds of troops.

The sources said ISIL was earning hundreds of millions of dollars from
the sale of crude oil and natural gas from fields the movement captured over
the last year.

The sources said ISIL was selling energy from at least four fields to neighboring Turkey.

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