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US Anti-Daesh Operation Serviceman Dies in UAE in Non-Combat-Related Incident

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The Pentagon is investigating the death of a 32-year-old serviceman in the United Arab Emirates.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — A US army soldier serving as part of the Operation Inherent Resolve in Syria and Iraq has died in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as a result of a non-combat-related incident, the US Department of Defense said Sunday.

"Warrant Officer Travis R. Tamayo, 32, of Brownsville, Texas, died Sept. 16 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, in a non-combat-related incident. The incident is under investigation," the Department of Defense said in a statement published on its website.

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Tamayo was serving with 202nd Military Intelligence Battalion stationed at Fort Gordon in Georgia. The unit specializes in counterintelligence and its personnel are trained in counter-terrorist Human Intelligence Gathering.

Operation Inherent Resolve is the US military intervention against Daesh in Syria and Iraq. The operation is part of a wider US-led coalition campaign, which in September 2014 began to carry out anti-Daesh airstrikes in Syria without the consent of the Syrian government.

Daesh, a militant jihadist group outlawed in many countries, including the United States and Russia, overran parts of Syria and Iraq in 2014.

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