{"id":65578,"date":"2016-05-03T09:45:35","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T13:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=65578"},"modified":"2016-05-03T09:45:35","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T13:45:35","slug":"another-casualty-in-the-war-against-isis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=65578","title":{"rendered":"Another casualty in the war against ISIS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=28097\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-28097\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/last-convoy-out-of-Iraq.jpg?resize=294%2C112\" alt=\"last convoy out of Iraq\" width=\"294\" height=\"112\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28097\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/enemy-fire-kills-us-troop-in-northern-iraq\/\">CBS News<\/a> reports that a US advisor to Kurdish forces has been killed in combat. The Pentagon was careful to add that he was killed a few miles from the very fluid battle lines;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The U.S. military did not immediately confirm which branch the slain service member was serving with, but the American troops operating in northern Iraq are largely U.S. Special Operations Forces.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier Tuesday it was widely reported that U.S. and coalition aircraft were supporting forces battling the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) north of Mosul. Mosul is approximately 50 miles west of Erbil.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The insurgents were able to get past the main battle area and engage forces with rifle fire and kill the unidentified US soldier. According to another unnamed US official, it was an &#8220;intense battle&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBS News reports that a US advisor to Kurdish forces has been killed in combat. The Pentagon was careful to add that he was killed a few miles from the very fluid battle lines; The U.S. military did not immediately confirm which branch the slain service member was serving with, but the American troops operating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-terror-war"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/last-convoy-out-of-Iraq.jpg?fit=294%2C112&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-h3I","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}