(28 Nov 2016) A British volunteer with the Syrian Kurdish militia on Monday recalled the US special forces soldier who was killed in an explosion in northern Syria last week.
John Harding, who is a medic with the People's Protection Units (YPG), a US-backed Kurdish militia fighting the Islamic State group in Syria, said that Senior Chief Petty Officer Scott Dayton "died protecting the freedoms that his country loves".
Dayton, who died on Thanksgiving Day, was the first American serviceman to be killed in combat in Syria.
The bomb-disposal expert died in an explosion caused by an improvised explosive device.
American special operations forces and aircraft are supporting the YPG and a clutch of small Arab militias pushing towards the Islamic State group's self-declared capital, Raqqa.
Three American volunteers were killed in earlier violence in the area, according to Harding.
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