Video Of Battle In Which US Navy SEAL Died

Footage has been released of a battle in Iraq between American, Kurdish and Assyrian forces and Islamic State militants, in which a US Navy SEAL was killed.

Charlie Keating IV was shot in a gunfight after more than 100 IS attackers overran the Kurdish Peshmerga frontline near Teleskof, a Christian town about 20 miles north of Mosul.

He was assisting US troops, who were deployed to advise Peshmerga fighters, but found themselves in the firing line when IS broke through using suicide car bombs and bulldozers on Tuesday.

The US responded with F-15s and drones that dropped more than 20 bombs, said a US official.

Up to 60 militants were killed and the Peshmerga later regained control of the town.

Three videos have been released by an Assyrian Christian militia called the Nineveh Plain Protection Units (NPU).

One showed NPU fighters in a field after a car bombing injured three of them, with smoke in the distance.

A second was of a jet flying overhead with a caption 'Airstrikes bombing #ISIS'.

And a third showed NPU fighters walking in a line through a field and then images outside buildings with gunfire being heard nearby.

Keating, 31, was based in San Diego, California. He began SEAL training in 2007 and graduated the next year.

He was deployed twice in Iraq and once in Afghanistan, before serving as the leading petty officer of a sniper training cell.

Keating was awarded several honours during his time in the Navy, including a bronze star, a Marine Corps achievement medal and an Army achievement medal.

He is the third American serviceman to die in combat in Iraq since the US-led coalition launched its campaign against the Islamic State group in the summer of 2014, according to military officials.

Arizona Governor Doug Ducey ordered all state flags be lowered to half-mast on Wednesday in honour of the elite serviceman.

He was a former Phoenix, Arizona, star distance runner who went on to join the athletics team at Indiana University.

Keating had been planning to get married in November, according to his former track coach Rob Reniewicki.