Body of American Killed Fighting IS Handed Over to Family

The body of an American who died fighting with Kurdish forces against the Islamic State group in Syria was handed over on Thursday to his family at a Turkish border crossing, a Kurdish official said. Hundreds of people turned up in the Kurdish town of Kobani to bid farewell to Keith Broomfield before his body was handed over to family at the Mursitpinar gate, said Idriss Naasan. Broomfield, from Massachusetts, died on June 3 in battle in a Syrian village near Kobani, making him likely...

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