{"id":78630,"date":"2018-04-01T09:51:35","date_gmt":"2018-04-01T13:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=78630"},"modified":"2018-04-01T09:54:04","modified_gmt":"2018-04-01T13:54:04","slug":"78630","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=78630","title":{"rendered":"US\/UK Casualties in Syria identified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=78631\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-78631\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Dunbar-Tonroe-300x154.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"154\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-78631\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Dunbar-Tonroe-300x154.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Dunbar-Tonroe-768x393.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Dunbar-Tonroe-500x256.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Dunbar-Tonroe.jpg 1326w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The two coalition soldiers who were killed last week near Manbij, Syria have been identified as US Special Forces Master <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/nationworld\/ct-soldier-killed-in-syria-20180331-story.html\">Sergeant Johnathan J. Dunbar<\/a> and UK Special Air Services Sergeant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/britain-names-sas-soldier-killed-fighting-syria-001521347.html\">Matt Tonroe<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Coalition forces, in an advise, assist and accompany capacity with our partners, were conducting a mission to kill or capture a known (Islamic State) member when they were struck by an improvised explosive device,&#8221; the U.S.-led coalition said Saturday in a statement to The Associated Press.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Tonroe&#8217;s commanding officer, who was not named by the MoD, said the sergeant was a &#8220;deeply intelligent man and one of life&#8217;s characters&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He had a steel core, served his country with pride and was a first class soldier, proven in combat, faced risk willingly and was ever ready for more,&#8221; the CO said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He thus died as he lived: daring and fearless in duty. We mourn his loss dearly.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The two coalition soldiers who were killed last week near Manbij, Syria have been identified as &hellip; <a title=\"US\/UK Casualties in Syria identified\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=78630\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">US\/UK Casualties in Syria identified<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/78631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}