U.S. military Special Forces soldier killed in action during an operation against ISIS group in Afghanistan
An American solider was killed while conducting an operation on Saturday
The unnamed soldier died while working against ISIS in the Nangarhar Province
The service member was a Special Forces operator, it was learned later Saturday
This was the first U.S. soldier casualty in Afghanistan in 2017 for the Resolute Support mission
DailyMail.com
9 April 2017
A U.S. military Special Forces soldier was killed while conducting an operation against Islamic State militants in Afghanistan.
In a tweet issued Saturday, a spokesman for U.S. forces in Afghanistan said the soldier was mortally wounded during an operation in the Nangarhar Province.
The soldier’s name hasn’t been announced and no other information has been released.
The unnamed soldier was a special forces operator, U.S. Navy Captain Bill Salvin told Reuters separately.
The circumstances of the service member’s death were unclear and Salvin said more information could be released later.
This was the first U.S. soldier casualty in Afghanistan in 2017 for the Resolute Support mission, NBC News reported.
Islamic State’s offshoot in Afghanistan, known as the Sunni jihadist group’s so-called Khorasan Province, is suspected of carrying out several attacks on minority Shi’ite Muslim targets.
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