US EditionTrump Vows Retaliation After ISIS Kills 3 Americans in Syria
Two Iowa National Guard soldiers and a U.S. civilian interpreter were killed during a counter-ISIS operation, with President Trump promising severe retaliation.
- On Dec 13, an attacker struck a mixed American-Syrian convoy in Palmyra, killing two US Army soldiers and a civilian interpreter before the attacker was shot dead.
- Syria's Interior Ministry said the assailant was a member of Syrian security forces suspected of sympathising with Islamic State and had been assessed days before the attack as possibly extremist.
- Syria's Interior Ministry said its units in Palmyra carried out an operation that arrested five suspects linked to the shooting, coordinating with international coalition forces as troops stood outside suspects' houses.
- On Dec 14, Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke by phone with Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shibani, who offered condolences and reiterated Syria's commitment to degrade ISIS, State Department spokesperson Tommy Pigott said.
- Recent months of coalition air strikes and ground operations, often with Syrian forces, followed Syria's November arrests of more than 70 people in cooperation with the US-led coalition after President Ahmed al-Sharaa's White House visit.
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US personnel killed in ISIS ambush during Syria engagement
Two US service members and a US civilian interpreter were killed in Syria on 13 December after an ambush by a lone ISIS gunman, according to US Central Command. Three additional US service members were injured. USCENTCOM said the attack occurred while the personnel were conducting a “key leader engagement” in a volatile part of Syria. The attacker was engaged and killed at the scene. The identities of those killed are being withheld pending noti…
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Why and how did three American military personnel get killed in Syria?The first reason is that the U.S. has had a military presence in Syria for nearly a decade as its contribution to the international campaign to uproot the Islamic state from Iraq and Syria, or D-ISIS. The number of troops in Syria has ebbed and flowed over the years, reaching 2,000 at its height during the Biden administration from about 900 earlier in the campaign.Officials f…
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