US Central Command reports an ambush on Saturday, the first attack to inflict US casualties since fall of Bashar al-Assad
Two US army soldiers and one American civilian interpreter have been killed and several other people wounded in an ambush on Saturday by the Islamic State group in central Syria, the Pentagon said.
The attack on US troops in Palmyra is the first to inflict casualties since the fall of the former Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, a year ago.
“The attack occurred as the soldiers were conducting a key leader engagement,” the Pentagon’s chief spokesperson, Sean Parnell, said in a statement. “Their mission was in support of on-going counter-ISIS / counter-terrorism operations in the region.”
The attacker “was killed by partner forces”, Pete Hegseth, the US defense secretary, wrote on the social media platform X.
