Even worse, the Obama State Department refused to offer official condolences to the families of the Americans killed fighting ISIS.

Via WaPo:

The remains of three Americans who died in Syria after joining a U.S.-backed Kurdish militia to fight the Islamic State are expected to be repatriated Wednesday, members of their families and a congressional source said.

The bodies of Levi Shirley, William Savage and Jordan MacTaggart will arrive on a flight to Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, before traveling to their respective home states, said Shirley’s mother, Susan, and Savage’s sister, Brenna. Kurdish groups transported the remains by ground from Syria to Iraq earlier this month, weeks after they were killed in combat against the Islamic State while serving as members of the People’s Protection Units (YPG), a ground force aligned with the U.S. military.

“While much of the process took too long, this situation was unique and extremely complicated,” Perlmutter said. “It took extraordinary measures by many people to get these men from Syria to the U.S. — especially given the ever-changing and dangerous geopolitical dynamics in the Middle East. It seems we are in the final stages of this long and sad situation. I will be relieved when these young men are finally returned home to their families.”

Turkey’s hostile relationship with the Kurds — and its tension with the United States following the July coup attempt — complicated the effort to recover the remains. The body of Keith Broomfield, an American who was killed fighting against the Islamic State in June 2015, was repatriated to the United States through Turkey. But the remains of the other Americans were instead routed hundreds of miles east to avoid crossing the Turkish border. […]

State Department officials have said that they were helping the families of the three men recover their remains. But the U.S. government has declined to offer official condolences, disappointing some of them.