American killed in Syria

Fox News reports that an American service member was killed in an IED blast which killed one other coalition soldier and injured five others near the mixed Arab-Kurdish town of Manbij on the border between Syria and Turkey.

Mohammed Abu Adel, the head of the Manbij Military Council, an Arab-Kurdish US.-backed group in the town, said the bomb went off hundreds of yards away from a security headquarters that houses the council just before midnight on Thursday.

The wounded personnel received immediate care and are being evacuated for further medical treatment. The names of the deceased will be released at the discretion of the pertinent national authorities.

“The names of the deceased will be released at the discretion of the pertinent national authorities,” the statement read.

Stars & Stripes reports that this is the first combat-related death this year in the war against ISIS;

Eleven U.S. servicemembers have died in noncombat incidents while supporting the anti-ISIS fight in Iraq and Syria this year, including seven Air Force personnel killed earlier this month in a helicopter crash in western Iraq, near the Syrian border.

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