Two members of the U.S. Army and a civilian interpreter were killed, with three other Americans and two Syrians also injured, in a shooting by a lone gunmen Saturday in Syria.

The attack on U.S. troops in Iraq is the first to inflict casualties since the fall of Syrian President Bashar Assad a year ago.

DAMASCUS, Syria: Two US service members and one American civilian have been killed and three other people wounded in an ambush on Saturday by the Daesh group in central Syria, the…