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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Did mission creep kill 3 Americans in Syria?
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…
Three Americans were killed in an ambush in Syria. It was an "IS attack on the United States," according to US President Donald Trump. - We will retaliate, he says. The United States will "mercilessly kill" anyone who targets Americans, writes Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on X.
ISIS Attack on US Troops in Syria ⋆ Conservative Firing Line
The following article, ISIS Attack on US Troops in Syria, was first published on Conservative Firing Line. Two US troops plus one American interpreter were killed near Palmyra in Syria during a patrol early Saturday morning. Three other troops were also wounded. Both President Trump and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth vowed retaliation upon learning of the attack. The perpetrator was killed in the situation, which was attributed to an “ISIS attack…
Deadly Attack on U.S. Forces in Syria Raises Questions Over Security Coordination and Regional Stability
The deaths of two U.S. soldiers and a civilian interpreter, alongside the injury of three others during a joint security meeting in Syria’s Homs province, have reignited concerns over the fragility of U.S.–Syrian security coordination and the persistent threat posed by ISIS in eastern Syria. According to the U.S. Department of Defense, the attack occurred on Saturday, 13 December, during a coordination meeting between American forces and Syrian …
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