A Macomb, Michigan, man has been identified as the interpreter who was killed in Syria over the weekend, along with two members of the Iowa National Guard.
Ayad Mansoor Sakat was honored on Wednesday as his remains were transferred from a plane at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware. President Trump, as well as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and top military brass, saluted.
The two other people killed were identified as Sgt. Edgar Brian Torres-Tovar, 25, of Des Moines, and Sgt. William Nathaniel Howard, 29, of Marshalltown, Iowa.
Multiple sources told CBS News that the shooting on Saturday, Dec. 13, happened during a mission by U.S. and Syrian forces in a historic central town near Palmyra. The Pentagon says an ISIS gunman ambushed them…