An Arabic-language post on the Islamic State-affiliated Amaq news website claims the terror group on Friday has killed a US soldier in village of Zahr Imarah north of the Syrian city of Manbij.
According to Amaq, four IS militants carried out an early morning assault on US and Kurdish forces in the village. Six Kurdish fighters are said to have also been killed.
The report claimed that the four IS militants returned from the attack unharmed.
There was no immediate comment on the report from US officials.
On May 31, the Pentagon confirmed the first US soldier had been injured in the fight against IS in Syria. The Pentagon also announced that day that a US service member had also been wounded in Iraq.
"They were not on the front lines, they were not engaged in active combat, but they were hit in both cases by indirect fire and suffered injuries," Pentagon spokesman Captain Jeff Davis said. The term indirect fire is often used to describe rocket or mortar fire.
The US rarely provides details on service members killed or wounded in the fight in IS so as not to reveal unnecessary information to the enemy.
"We don't talk in detail about our wounded because we don't want to telegraph battle damage assessments to our enemy," Davis told reporters.
Special operations forces are playing a key role in America's campaign against the IS group in Iraq and Syria, where the commandos are training and advising local forces fighting the jihadists.
There are nearly 4,600 US troops stationed in Iraq and some 300 in Syria.
[i24news.tv]
20/8/16
According to Amaq, four IS militants carried out an early morning assault on US and Kurdish forces in the village. Six Kurdish fighters are said to have also been killed.
The report claimed that the four IS militants returned from the attack unharmed.
There was no immediate comment on the report from US officials.
On May 31, the Pentagon confirmed the first US soldier had been injured in the fight against IS in Syria. The Pentagon also announced that day that a US service member had also been wounded in Iraq.
"They were not on the front lines, they were not engaged in active combat, but they were hit in both cases by indirect fire and suffered injuries," Pentagon spokesman Captain Jeff Davis said. The term indirect fire is often used to describe rocket or mortar fire.
The US rarely provides details on service members killed or wounded in the fight in IS so as not to reveal unnecessary information to the enemy.
"We don't talk in detail about our wounded because we don't want to telegraph battle damage assessments to our enemy," Davis told reporters.
Special operations forces are playing a key role in America's campaign against the IS group in Iraq and Syria, where the commandos are training and advising local forces fighting the jihadists.
There are nearly 4,600 US troops stationed in Iraq and some 300 in Syria.
[i24news.tv]
20/8/16
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