WASHINGTON: Kurdish and US forces stormed an Islamic State prison in northern Iraq, freeing some 70 captives who were facing imminent execution, the Pentagon said.
A US serviceman died of wounds sustained in the pre-dawn operation, the first to be killed in action since the US-led campaign against IS began in Iraq in June 2014.
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