The US Navy SEAL killed in Iraq has been identified as Charlie Keating IV, the grandson of the late Arizona financier involved in a savings and loan scandal.
Arizona Governor Doug Ducey announced late on Tuesday afternoon that Keating died in an Islamic State group attack near the city of Irbil.
Ducey ordered all state flags be lowered to half-mast from sunrise to sunset on Wednesday in honour of Keating, who was a graduate of Phoenix's Arcadia High School.
The 31-year-old Keating attended the Naval Academy before becoming a Navy SEAL based out of Coronado, California.
Keating's grandfather, Charles H. Keating Jr, who died in 2014 at age 90, was the notorious financier who served prison time for his role in the costliest savings and loan failure of the 1980s.
Keating died when IS militants blasted through Kurdish defences and overran a town in the biggest offensive in the area for months.
The SEAl was the third American to be killed in direct combat since a US-led coalition launched a campaign in 2014 to "degrade and destroy" the jihadist group.
"It is a combat death, of course, and a very sad loss," US Defense Secretary Ash Carter told reporters during a trip to Germany on Tuesday.
A senior official within the Kurdish peshmerga forces facing IS in northern Iraq said Keating had been killed near the town of Tel Asqof, around 28 kilometres from the militant stronghold of Mosul.
IS insurgents occupied the town at dawn on Tuesday, but were driven out later in the day by the peshmerga.
A US military official said the coalition had helped the peshmerga with air support from F-15 jets and drones.
The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Keating was killed "by direct fire" from IS.
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