DAMASCUS: President Donald Trump said Saturday that “there will be very serious retaliation” after two US service members and one American civilian were killed in an attack in Syria that the United States blames on the Daesh group. “This was an Daesh attack against the US, and Syria, in a very dangerous part of Syria, that is not fully controlled by them,” he said in a social media post. The American president told reporters at the White House that Syria’s president, Ahmed Al-Sharaa, was “devastated by what happened” and stressed that Syria was fighting alongside US troops.

Two American troops and a civilian were killed in central Syria on Saturday after an alleged member of the Islamic State group opened fire on a joint US-Syrian patrol, officials…

Attack on US forces occurred as soldiers were conducting ‘key leader engagement’ as part of a larger counter-terrorism operation