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A US official said the soldier was stationed at the Makhmour base outside the Isis-held city of Mosul.
The attack was an “indirect fire attack,” specifically rockets, the official said. The official spoke on condition of anonymity as he wasn’t authorized to brief the media.
The Marine, who was providing force protection fire, died in the rocket attack at a base near Makhmur, a town between the cities of Mosul and Kirkuk, Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook said.
Cook did not identify the Marine who had been killed. He said several other Marines had been wounded and were being treated for injuries.
A US defense official said two rockets had been fired. One did not cause any damage.
Two Iraqi commanders stationed at the base also reported a rocket attack Saturday, but denied anyone had been hurt or killed.
The US-led coalition reports that as Iraqi troops have built up at Makhmour in preparation for an assault on Mosul, the frequency of indirect fire attacks there has increased.
An earlier statement put out by the US military said the service member died as a result of “enemy action”.
It was the second combat death of an American service member in Iraq since the start of the campaign to fight Isis. In October, Master Sgt Joshua Wheeler, 39, of Roland, Oklahoma, became the first American to die in combat in Iraq since 2011, when he was killed during an overnight mission to rescue hostages held by Isis militants.
Earlier this year US Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced that a new force of special operations troops had arrived in Iraq and was preparing to work with Iraqi forces to go after Islamic State targets.
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While that force was expected to number only about 200, its deployment marked the latest expansion of US military pressure on
In Syria, air strikes on the northern city of Raqqa on Saturday killed at least 39 people and wounded many others, according to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.