Video shows US soldier death was result of fierce combat against ISIS

Ηe was killed in northern Iraq “as the result of enemy fire” and behind the front lines

A footage obtained by the Guardian shows the intense firefight between US special forces, Kurdish commandoes and Islamic State fighters in which a US Navy Seal was killed.

The footage provided to the Guardian by the lieutenant of an elite Kurdish peshmerga unit shows a convoy of four by four vehicles coming under fire near Tel Osqof, a Christian town about 30km north of Mosul, as the Guardian reports.

Special Warfare Operator First Class Charles H Keating IV of San Diego was the third US casualty of the latest US war in Iraq.

US Central Command and the Pentagon said that he was killed in northern Iraq “as the result of enemy fire” and behind the front lines.

Special Warfare Operator First Class Charles H Keating IV of San Diego, who hailed from Arizona, became the third US casualty of the latest US war in Iraq.