WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S.-backed hostage rescue mission in Iraq that freed some 70 Islamic State prisoners but left one U.S. special forces trooper dead was a "unique circumstance," not a change in U.S. tactics in the war, the Pentagon said on Thursday.
Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook told a briefing that Defence Secretary Ash Carter approved U.S. involvement in the operation based on the authorities he had in the current conflict and notified White House national security officials before it took place.
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