DES MOINES, Iowa -- Monday morning, the Iowa National Guard released the names of the Iowa soldiers killed in Syria over the weekend. The news release from the Guard said Sgt. William Nathaniel Howard, 29, of Marshalltown, and Sgt. Edgar Brian Torres-Tovar, 25, of Des Moines, died in the December 13 th attack in Palmyra, Syria. [...] ...read more read less