A U.S. armed forces member was killed by ISIS militants on Tuesday near the city of Mosul, Iraq.
Operation Inherent Resolve said the service member, a Navy SEAL who was not named, “was killed in northern Iraq as a result of enemy fire.”
He was shot and killed Tuesday by “direct fire” from Islamic State militants who stormed through defenses that were implemented by Kurdish Peshmerga forces in northern Iraq, Fox News reported.
Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook said in a statement that the unnamed service member was advising Peshmerga forces. He was killed by small arms fire, probably from an AK-47.
The rank of the SEAL is unclear.
Kurdish Peshmerga soldier pauses at an outpost on the edges of the contested city of Kirkuk in Iraq on July 3, 2014. Spencer Platt/Getty Images
