{
  "id": 17968589,
  "title": "IRGC-backed Fatemiyoun gunmen killed in clashes at school used as training ground",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/03/irgc-backed-fatemiyoun-gunmen-killed-in-clashes-at-school-used-as",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-11-03T13:48:52.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Jerusalem Post",
    "slug": "jerusalem-post",
    "url": "https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-913703"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "On November 11, 2026, clashes erupted at Bir-e Sofla School in the village of Bir, located in Iran's Sistan and Baluchestan province. The confrontation left at least seven members of the Fatemiyoun militia, an IRGC-backed and trained Shi'ite group primarily composed of Afghans, dead, and several others critically wounded, according to the Haalvsh human rights monitor. Unknown gunmen launched the attack on the school at 4 p.m. local time, engaging the Fatemiyoun forces stationed there. Haalvsh did not identify the attackers, but the IRGC-owned Tasnim News Agency later reported that they were linked to Jaish al-Adl, a Baloch nationalist militant organization active along the Iran-Pakistan border. The IRGC-affiliated Tasnim News Agency did not disclose any fatalities from the attack, aside from the single gunman who attempted to assault \"army personnel.\" In a separate incident, a regime security officer named Third Lieutenant Hojjat Vafakarde was killed by an unidentified gunman near the Islamic Azad University and the governor's office building in Saravan County on Tuesday morning, around 7:45 a.m.",
  "summary": "Unknown gunmen attacked the terrorists on the base in the Bir-e Sofla School in the village of Bir, in Kahiri district of Konarak County, according to the organization.",
  "key_points": [
    "Seven Fatemiyoun militia members killed in school clashes on November 11, 2026",
    "Attackers linked to Baloch nationalist militant organization Jaish al-Adl",
    "Regime security officer killed near Islamic Azad University in Saravan County"
  ],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}