More U.S. troops being sent to Iraq after ISIS rocket kills Marine

Louis Cardin. — (Image credit: Twitter.com/NBCLA)

A U.S. Marine was killed Saturday south of Mosul, Iraq, after his unit was attacked by an Islamic State rocket.

Staff Sgt. Louis F. Cardin, 27, of Temecula, California, was the first U.S. service member killed in Iraq since October, NBC News reports. Several others were injured. In a statement, the U.S.-led coalition said Sunday a detachment from the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, based at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina, will soon be sent to Iraq; the Pentagon did not say how many Marines from the unit will be deployed.

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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.