The US Department of Defense has identified three of the four Americans killed in Syria on Wednesday.
Army Chief Warrant Officer 2 Jonathan R. Farmer, 37, of Boynton Beach, Florida;
Navy Chief Cryptologic Technician Shannon M. Kent, 35, of upstate New York;
and DOD civilian Scott A. Wirtz of St. Louis, Missouri.
They were killed Wednesday in the explosion in Manbij, Syria, according to the Department of Defense. All three died "as a result of wounds sustained from a suicide improvised explosive device," according to the military.
The fourth American killed in Syria was a contractor supporting the Defense Department, according to a Pentagon spokesman. The Pentagon will not release his name since he was not military.