U.S. serviceman killed in hostage rescue mission in Iraq, One affiliate of a U.S. appropriate operations aggregation was dead during an operation to accomplishment hostages captivated by Islamic State militants in arctic Iraq, the aboriginal American dead in arena action with the active group, U.S. admiral said on Thursday.
Hostages were auspiciously rescued during the operation, a U.S. official told Reuters. CNN said about 70 Kurdish hostages were freed.
A U.S. official accepted to Reuters that one American was killed. No added advice was accessible on the mission, which bounded association and a Kurdish aggressive administrator said was agitated out in the Hawija breadth in arctic Iraq.
It was the aboriginal U.S. serviceman dead in arena action operations adjoin Islamic State, which has been the ambition of circadian air strikes in Iraq and Syria by a U.S.-led affiliation for added than a year.
One antecedent in the Hawija breadth said the operation complex helicopters and targeted a makeshift bastille breadth Islamic State was captivation a amount of hostages.
NBC News, citation anonymous sources, said the operation was requested by the Iraqi government and those rescued were Kurdish fighters. It said the U.S. armament suffered casualties but the amount of injuries was unclear.
Another Reuters antecedent in the Hawija breadth said the appropriate armament raided a abode breadth Islamic State commanders were gathering, triggering gun battles and blasts that lasted several hours.
Sheikh Jaafar Mustafa, a chief administrator of the Kurdish peshmerga forces, accepted an operation had taken abode but said he had no added advice about it. In May, American appropriate operations armament dead chief Islamic State baton Abu Sayyaf from Tunisia in a arrest in Syria.
Hostages were auspiciously rescued during the operation, a U.S. official told Reuters. CNN said about 70 Kurdish hostages were freed.A U.S. official accepted to Reuters that one American was killed. No added advice was accessible on the mission, which bounded association and a Kurdish aggressive administrator said was agitated out in the Hawija breadth in arctic Iraq.
It was the aboriginal U.S. serviceman dead in arena action operations adjoin Islamic State, which has been the ambition of circadian air strikes in Iraq and Syria by a U.S.-led affiliation for added than a year.
One antecedent in the Hawija breadth said the operation complex helicopters and targeted a makeshift bastille breadth Islamic State was captivation a amount of hostages.
NBC News, citation anonymous sources, said the operation was requested by the Iraqi government and those rescued were Kurdish fighters. It said the U.S. armament suffered casualties but the amount of injuries was unclear.
Another Reuters antecedent in the Hawija breadth said the appropriate armament raided a abode breadth Islamic State commanders were gathering, triggering gun battles and blasts that lasted several hours.
Sheikh Jaafar Mustafa, a chief administrator of the Kurdish peshmerga forces, accepted an operation had taken abode but said he had no added advice about it. In May, American appropriate operations armament dead chief Islamic State baton Abu Sayyaf from Tunisia in a arrest in Syria.
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