Defense Department officials released the names of three of the four Americans who died in a suicide bombing in northern Syria this week.
Jan. 18 (UPI) — Defense Department officials released the names of three of the four Americans who died in a suicide bombing in northern Syria this week
The Pentagon identified them as Army Chief Warrant Officer 2 Jonathan R. Farmer, 37, of Boynton Beach, Fla.; Navy Chief Cryptologic Technician (Interpretive) Shannon M. Kent, 35, of upstate New York; and Defense Department civilian Scott A. Wirtz, of St. Louis, Mo., a department release stated.
The four died Wednesday in Manbij, a key city in northern Syria near the Turkish border that is patrolled by a U.