Pentagon identifies US service member killed in Iranian attack on Iraq base

Source: thehill.com · Section: politics · Bias: Center-Right · Published: Tue, 21 Jul 2026 12:55:55 GMT

The Pentagon on Tuesday identified the U.S. service member who was killed over the weekend in Iraq during a “controlled detonation” of unexploded ordnance from a downed Iranian one-way attack drone. Sgt. Michael Emmanuel Swinton, 30, of Fayetteville, N.C., was killed during the detonation of the drone on Saturday at Erbil Air Base in Iraq —...

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