US troop killed in vehicle rollover in Syria

A U.S. service member was killed in a vehicle incident Friday in northern Syria, the U.S.-led coalition fighting the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) said in statement.

The statement described the incident as a rollover and provided no additional details of the incident.

“Further information will be released as appropriate,” the statement said.

{mosads}The statement did not identify the service member, saying it is coalition policy “to defer casualty identification procedures to the relevant national authorities.”

The United States has about 900 military personnel in Syria helping local Arab and Kurdish forces on the ground in the fight against ISIS.

Friday’s death is the third of a U.S. service member in Syria since troops first arrived in 2016.

Navy Senior Chief Petty Officer Scott Dayton, 42, was killed by an improvised explosive device in northern Syria in November 2016.

And on March 28, Air Force Staff Sgt. Austin Bieren, 25, died from suspected natural causes while deployed to northern Syria.