U.S. service member killed in northern Iraq: military statement

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

A U.S. service member died on Thursday from wounds sustained in an improvised explosive device blast in northern Iraq, the U.S.-led military coalition said in a statement.

A U.S. defense official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said the incident took place near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.

Roughly 5,000 U.S. forces are in Iraq. More than 100 of them are embedded with Iraqi and Kurdish Peshmerga forces involved with the Mosul offensive, advising commanders and helping them ensure coalition air power hits the right targets, officials have said.

The statement did not identify the service member.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-usa-casualty-idUSKCN12K2AB

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WORLD NEWS | Thu Oct 20, 2016 | 2:30pm EDT

[Fast Walker 52]

1. Wow... we had to expect this was coming with the special forces there in the new offensive

Let's hope this person was just unlucky and isn't a harbinger of more fatalities.

[maxsolomon]

3. Likely an embed.

He wasn't just "unlucky". it is a harbinger of more - this is warfare.

[Fast Walker 52]

4. that's what I'm worried about

[lamp_shade]

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