US names national guard members killed in Syria as Trump vows to hit Islamic State ‘hard’

Sgt Edgar Brian Torres-Tovar, 25, and 29-year-old Sgt William Nathaniel Howard were remembered as dedicated soldiersThe two Iowa national guard members killed in a weekend attack in Syria that the US military blamed on the Islamic State (IS) group were identified on Monday and remembered as dedicated soldiers.The US army named them as Sgt Edgar Brian Torres-Tovar, 25, of Des Moines, and Sgt William Nathaniel Howard, 29, of Marshalltown. Continue reading...