U.S. Marine Killed, Three Others Injured By ISIS Rocket in Iraq

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According to an official, the casualties were the result of ISIS firing a rocket at an outpost where U.S. service members are advising Iraqi forces.

March 19, 2016, 10:01 AM EDT / Updated March 19, 2016, 10:01 AM EDT

By Jim Miklaszewski and Courtney Kube

An American Marine was killed and three others were injured in Iraq by indirect fire, a U.S. military official said Saturday.

The casualty near Mahmour, south of Mosul, was the result of ISIS firing a rocket at a small outpost where U.S. military service members are advising Iraqi security forces, the official said.

"The Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve can confirm the death of a Coalition service member in northern Iraq today as a result of enemy action," the U.S.-led coalition said in a statement.

No further information was immediately released, including the Marine's identity.

The latest casualty comes days after Secretary of State John Kerry declared the atrocities committed by ISIS against religious minorities in the Middle East are genocide, marking only the second time he has used the term in relation to an ongoing conflict.

"Naming these crimes is important, but what is essential is to stop them," Kerry said Thursday.

The last U.S. service member killed in Iraq was in October 2015.

Jim Miklaszewski

Jim Miklaszewski is the chief Pentagon correspondent for NBC News. On 9/11, he was the first at the scene to report that the Pentagon had been attacked and has since led the network's coverage of the war in Afghanistan.

Since joining NBC in 1985, Miklaszewski was a White House correspondent during the Clinton and Bush administrations, covering President Clinton's transition from Little Rock, his many trips abroad including Moscow and the Middle East and his reelection. He was also an NBC floor reporter at the Democratic and Republican conventions in 1996 and 2000.

In the Bush White House, Miklaszewski reported on the Gulf War with Iraq, summits with Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin and the Bush reelection campaign in 1992.

Miklaszewski has logged considerable foreign experience with battlefront coverage of wars in Lebanon, El Salvador and the Falkland Islands. He also covered the United States air raid on Libya, and the "tanker wars" in the Persian Gulf.

Courtney Kube

Courtney Kube is a correspondent covering national security and the military for the NBC News Investigative Unit.

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