US citizen killed fighting for Kurds against IS

A US citizen has been killed fighting for Kurdish forces against Islamic State (IS) jihadists in the Kobane region of northern Syria, the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) said Friday. Keith Broomfield, 37, was killed on June 3 in an operation to take the village of Qentere in the Kobane region from IS, the YPG said in a statement quoted by the pro-Kurdish Firat news agency. The US State Department had Wednesday announced an American man had been killed in Syria, without confirming re