US Navy Seal Killed in Iraq as IS Breaches Peshmerga Lines
A US Navy Seal who was advising Kurdish Peshmerga forces in northern Iraq has been killed by Islamic State (IS) militants, US defence officials say.
The special warfare operator, who has not been named, died as a result of a gunshot wound, the Navy Times reported.
Peshmerga officials said the militants breached the frontline north of the IS-held city of Mosul on Tuesday morning.
The American was the third to be killed in combat since the US-led coalition campaign against IS began in 2014.
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