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Tuesday, May 3, 2016
From the Liveblog of
Tuesday, May 3, 2016
US soldier feared killed in Iraq
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleUS Defense Secretary Ash Carter says Tuesday he fears a US soldier had been killed in northern Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region.
“There are reports now that an American service member has been killed in Iraq (in) the neighborhood of Erbil,” Carter said, citing “preliminary reports.”
“I believe that much is true so our thoughts and prayers are with that service member’s family,” he tells reporters at the US European Command’s headquarters in Stuttgart, Germany.
“As we learn more, we will give you more information about that.”
A statement from the US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group said earlier that one of its service members was killed by enemy fire in northern Iraq but did not specify the victim’s nationality.
— AFP
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