
The attacks came as Iraqi forces and Shi'ite militias are fighting Islamic State militants in Falluja

Field commander told AFP that US ground forces were "taking part" in operations north of Raqa.

U.S.-led coalition is expected to provide air support.

Falluja was the first Iraqi city to fall to Islamic State in January 2014

"Only the enemies of Iraq, Daesh at the forefront, benefit from chaos."

The coalition located and targeted Islamic State's cash stores in Mosul and "took out hundreds of millions of dollars out of...

"Why does the administration go through these crazy somersaults... to say our troops are not in combat when they're in combat...

The White House told reporters that even though the serviceman was not on a combat mission
He was the third American to be killed in direct combat since 2014