Pentagon names 3 of 4 Americans killed in Manbij
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – The United States Department of Defense has identified three of the four Americans killed in a suicide attack in Manbij, Syria this week.
Army Chief Warrant Officer 2 Jonathan Farmer, 37, from Florida, Navy Chief Cryptologic Technician (Interpretive) Shannon Kent, 35, from New York, and civilian Scott Wirtz from Missouri were killed in Manbij on January 16.
Wirtz was a specialist with the Pentagon’s intelligence agency.
A fourth American was also killed, but not yet identified.
ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack that targeted a coalition patrol in the city.
A reported five of the local Manbij Military Council (MMC) forces and at least nine civilians were also killed in the blast.
Local media ANHA named nine civilian victims, citing hospital sources.
They are: Yasser Ahmed Khalaf from the village of Qara al-Sakira, Fadia Abboud and her daughter Sahar Melhem from Aleppo, Mohammed al-Ahmed who worked at the restaurant that was hit in the explosion, Hassan Hankouri from Uom Jalud village, Yasser Khali Akazi from the al-Shahba region north of Aleppo, Raad Kurdi from the village of Haj Abdeen, and Hamza Shiyar and Wiso Fares who are both from the Kobane area.
Army Chief Warrant Officer 2 Jonathan Farmer, 37, from Florida, Navy Chief Cryptologic Technician (Interpretive) Shannon Kent, 35, from New York, and civilian Scott Wirtz from Missouri were killed in Manbij on January 16.
Wirtz was a specialist with the Pentagon’s intelligence agency.
A fourth American was also killed, but not yet identified.
ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack that targeted a coalition patrol in the city.
A reported five of the local Manbij Military Council (MMC) forces and at least nine civilians were also killed in the blast.
Local media ANHA named nine civilian victims, citing hospital sources.
They are: Yasser Ahmed Khalaf from the village of Qara al-Sakira, Fadia Abboud and her daughter Sahar Melhem from Aleppo, Mohammed al-Ahmed who worked at the restaurant that was hit in the explosion, Hassan Hankouri from Uom Jalud village, Yasser Khali Akazi from the al-Shahba region north of Aleppo, Raad Kurdi from the village of Haj Abdeen, and Hamza Shiyar and Wiso Fares who are both from the Kobane area.