Iowa National Guardsmen identified as two killed in Syria

The Army on Monday announced the names of the two Iowa National Guard soldiers killed in an Islamic State ambush in Syria over the weekend. Sgt. Edgar Brian Torres Tovar, 25, of Des Moines, and Sgt. William Nathaniel Howard, 29, of Marshalltown, died Saturday in Palmyra, Syria, “of injuries sustained while engaged with hostile forces,” according to...