Believing that Islamic State captives held on a compound in northern Iraq faced ‘imminent mass execution,’ dozens of US special operations troops and Iraqi forces raided the site Thursday, freeing approximately 70 Iraqi prisoners in an operation that saw the first American killed in combat in the country since the US-led coalition war against the Islamic State began in 2014Photograph: Safin Hamed/AFP/Getty Images
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Source: theguardian.com