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He was the first American to die in combat since the U.S. launched Operation Inherent Resolve last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The raid marked the first time US troops were involved in direct ground combat in Iraq since the war against the Islamic State group was launched in August 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">U.S. officials said the plan for the rescue mission had called for the U.S. troops, who are members of the elite and secretive Delta Force, to stay back from the prison compound and let the Kurds do the fighting. The Americans transported the Kurds to the scene aboard five U.S. helicopters. 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The Kurdish regional government in northern Iraq released a video Sunday, Oct. 25, 2015 purportedly showing the joint raid of a prison by U.S. and Kurdish peshmerga forces in which they released 70 hostages from the Islamic State group\u0092s captivity. 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