Charlie Keating IV,killed ‘by direct fire’, was the third American to be killed in direct combat since a US-led coalition launched a campaign in 2014 Islamic State militants killed a US Navy Seal in northern Iraq on Tuesday, or after blasting through Kurdish defenses and overrunning a town in the biggest offensive in the area for months,officials said. The elite serviceman was the third American to be killed in direct combat since a US-led coalition launched a campaign in 2014 to “degrade and waste” Islamic State and is a degree of its deepening involvement in the conflict.
Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com