A US service member died in a noncombat incident in northern Syria on Monday, according to the US-led coalition against ISIS.
The American was deployed as part of Operation Inherent Resolve, as the coalition is known, but no further information was immediately available.
The American’s identity was withheld pending notification of next of kin.
The US military has around 2,000 troops stationed in northern Syria, where they have been for several years, assisting and advising its local partners in the fight against ISIS.
President Donald Trump said in December he intended to withdraw all American forces from Syria, although the White House said later the US will keep 200 troops in the country for the immediate future.
The death was the fourth such noncombat fatality in the Central Command (Centcom) area of operations in less than two weeks.
Stretching from Kenya in the Horn of Africa through the Middle East as far east as Afghanistan and Pakistan, Centcom includes a number of combat theatres and also permanent US military bases.
In Iraq on April 23, Michael Osorio, 20, died at Taji, a base north of Baghdad where coalition troops train Iraqi forces.
In Qatar on April 19, Albert Miller, 24, died at Al Udeid Air Base, where he was assigned to an aircraft maintenance squadron.
On April 20 in Iraq, Ryan Dennis Orin Riley, 22, died in Nineveh, where he was deployed as a member of the 101st Airborne Division.
