The names of those killed in action in Manbij,Syria while serving in Operation Inherent Resolve have been released.The British Soldier was Sergeant Matthew Tonroe,33,a member of sniper platoon,3rd Battalion,Parachute Regiment.The American killed was Master Sergeant Johnathan J. Dunbar,36,a member of Headquarters,US Army Special Operations Command,out of Fort Bragg,North Carolina.*
The troops were killed when an IED exploded near their patrol.SGT Tonroe was embedded with US Special Operations Forces engaged in a mopping up operation directed at ISIL militants.He is the first British combat death in OIR,which was launched in Iraq in 2014 to neutralise the Islamist extremist group that evolved from al-Qaida in Iraq and later expanded into Syria.
Manbij is near the Turkish border.
ISIL sleeper cells have materialised in Syria in the wake of the organisation's suffering major defeats in Iraq and Syria at the hands of Combined Joint Task Force OIR.
The particulars of SOF activity in Syria have been closely held.
Saturday, March 31, 2018
Friday, March 30, 2018
Bulletin:US,British Soldier Killed in Action in Syria
In the Syrian city of Manbij,one US and one British soldier were reportedly killed in an IED explosion.The troops were on a mission against Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant militants.The British service member was embedded with US troops at the time.No further details were immediately available.
Earlier,a US official said two Operation Inherent Resolve coalition soldiers of unspecified nationality had been killed.*
On 29 March 2018,Pentagon Spokesperson Dana White commented on the situation in Syria:
Important work remains to guarantee the lasting defeat of these violent extremists.Our commitment to win must outlast the so-called physical caliphate,and the warped ideas that guide the calculated cruelty of ISIS (another name for ISIL).*
Manbij is a city of 100,000 people located in Northern Syria,30 km west of the Euphrates River.It is a centre for OIR training of the Syrian Democratic Forces engaged in combating ISIL and other extremist elements.The US is known to have sent its Special Operations Forces into Manbij.*
On 30 March,Combined Joint Task Force OIR issued a news release stating that between 23-29 March,OIR coaltion forces conducted 11 strikes consisting of 12 engagements against ISIS in Syria and Iraq.All the Syria strikes were near Abu Kamal,administrative centre of Abu Kamal district,which is in Eastern Syria near the Iraqi border.An ISIS tactical unit and an ISIS fighting position were destroyed in these strikes.
In Iraq,OIR forces destroyed an ISIS tunnel system near Ramadi in Anbar Province.
Near Qayarrah,a city of 15,000 in southern Nineveh Governate about 60 km south of Mosul,OIR forces destroyed three ISIS tunnels and an ISIS watercraft.
OIR strikes are carried out by:
fighter,attack,bomber,rotary-wing or remotely piloted aircraft;as well as:
rocket-propelled artillery;and ground-based tactical artillery.
Only limited specifics about the strikes are disclosed.
Earlier,a US official said two Operation Inherent Resolve coalition soldiers of unspecified nationality had been killed.*
On 29 March 2018,Pentagon Spokesperson Dana White commented on the situation in Syria:
Important work remains to guarantee the lasting defeat of these violent extremists.Our commitment to win must outlast the so-called physical caliphate,and the warped ideas that guide the calculated cruelty of ISIS (another name for ISIL).*
Manbij is a city of 100,000 people located in Northern Syria,30 km west of the Euphrates River.It is a centre for OIR training of the Syrian Democratic Forces engaged in combating ISIL and other extremist elements.The US is known to have sent its Special Operations Forces into Manbij.*
On 30 March,Combined Joint Task Force OIR issued a news release stating that between 23-29 March,OIR coaltion forces conducted 11 strikes consisting of 12 engagements against ISIS in Syria and Iraq.All the Syria strikes were near Abu Kamal,administrative centre of Abu Kamal district,which is in Eastern Syria near the Iraqi border.An ISIS tactical unit and an ISIS fighting position were destroyed in these strikes.
In Iraq,OIR forces destroyed an ISIS tunnel system near Ramadi in Anbar Province.
Near Qayarrah,a city of 15,000 in southern Nineveh Governate about 60 km south of Mosul,OIR forces destroyed three ISIS tunnels and an ISIS watercraft.
OIR strikes are carried out by:
fighter,attack,bomber,rotary-wing or remotely piloted aircraft;as well as:
rocket-propelled artillery;and ground-based tactical artillery.
Only limited specifics about the strikes are disclosed.
Tuesday, March 27, 2018
Interior Secretary Pledges Support for Grizzly Bear Reintroduction to the North Cascades Ecosystem (Washington State/British Columbia)
US Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke,a former Navy SEAL,startled environmentalists and cattlemen alike when he announced his support for reintroducing the grizzly bear (Ursus arctos horribilis) to the North Cascades Ecosystem.The Ecosystem stretches from Northcentral Washington State and across the Canadian border into British Columbia.Jewel of the Ecosystem is North Cascades National Park,which is located some 75 mile/121 km north of Seattle,Washington.
In his first year in office,Mr.Zinke has developed a tough guy reputation,seeming totally oblivious to conservation concerns,in the eyes of many,and apparently all in on resource extraction and exploitation.
The other side of the man was revealed in his recent comments at North Cascades National Park in Sedro-Woolley,Skagit County,Washington:
The grizzly bear is part of the environment,as it once was here.It's part of a healthy environment.*
Restoring the grizzly bear to the North Cascades Ecosystem is the American conservation ethic come to life.The loss of the grizzly bear in the North Cascades would disturb the Ecosystem and deprive the region of an icon.*
I grew up on the flanks of Glacier National Park (Montana) and I have dealt with grizzly bears all my life.I'm in support of the Great Bear,and in support of doing this right.This is not reintroduction of a rabbit.*
I have always loved grizzlies.*
I am confident we have the skill to have grizzlies in the Ecosystem in a way that managers don't have unintended consequences.*
Few grizzly bears have been seen in recent years.It is believed there are no more than a few dozen grizzlies left in the entire Ecosystem.They were largely hunted out for their fur from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries.
There is also a small population of grizzly bears in the Selkirk Mountains of Northeast Washington.*
Mr.Zinke was educated in citizenship by the American Legion Boys' State programme,going on to become a decorated Navy SEAL,with whom he served in theatres from Kosovo to Iraq,as well as a state senator and Member of Congress.*
The Environmental Impact Statement for grizzly reintroduction to the North Cascades was halted when President Donald Trump took office.Indeed,Mr.Zinke had lifted Endangered Species Act protection for the grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.*
Secretary Zinke aims to have the EIS and a Record of Decision completed by year's end.*
The grizzly bear is a subspecies of brown bear (Ursus arctos).It is viewed with hostility by those with agricultural interests as a threat to both people and livestock;but considered a keystone species in conservation circles.
In his first year in office,Mr.Zinke has developed a tough guy reputation,seeming totally oblivious to conservation concerns,in the eyes of many,and apparently all in on resource extraction and exploitation.
The other side of the man was revealed in his recent comments at North Cascades National Park in Sedro-Woolley,Skagit County,Washington:
The grizzly bear is part of the environment,as it once was here.It's part of a healthy environment.*
Restoring the grizzly bear to the North Cascades Ecosystem is the American conservation ethic come to life.The loss of the grizzly bear in the North Cascades would disturb the Ecosystem and deprive the region of an icon.*
I grew up on the flanks of Glacier National Park (Montana) and I have dealt with grizzly bears all my life.I'm in support of the Great Bear,and in support of doing this right.This is not reintroduction of a rabbit.*
I have always loved grizzlies.*
I am confident we have the skill to have grizzlies in the Ecosystem in a way that managers don't have unintended consequences.*
Few grizzly bears have been seen in recent years.It is believed there are no more than a few dozen grizzlies left in the entire Ecosystem.They were largely hunted out for their fur from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries.
There is also a small population of grizzly bears in the Selkirk Mountains of Northeast Washington.*
Mr.Zinke was educated in citizenship by the American Legion Boys' State programme,going on to become a decorated Navy SEAL,with whom he served in theatres from Kosovo to Iraq,as well as a state senator and Member of Congress.*
The Environmental Impact Statement for grizzly reintroduction to the North Cascades was halted when President Donald Trump took office.Indeed,Mr.Zinke had lifted Endangered Species Act protection for the grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.*
Secretary Zinke aims to have the EIS and a Record of Decision completed by year's end.*
The grizzly bear is a subspecies of brown bear (Ursus arctos).It is viewed with hostility by those with agricultural interests as a threat to both people and livestock;but considered a keystone species in conservation circles.
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