2 US , soldiers and civilians killed, others wounded after assailant shot at U.S Syrian patrol in Syria

Irfan Bhatti

Tension rises in Syria! 🇺🇸 Two US soldiers killed and others wounded in attack during joint patrol with Syrian forces. The latest on the escalating situation...  #Syria #USMilitary #Conflict

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00:00Hello, today's headline, two U.S. soldiers and civilian killed, others wounded after

00:05assailant shot at U.S. Syrian patrol in Syria, Pentagon says.

00:10Now the detail news.

00:12Two U.S. Army soldiers and a U.S. civilian who was serving as an interpreter were killed

00:16after shots were fired at U.S. and Syrian forces on a mission to a historic central

00:21town in Syria on Saturday, U.S. military officials said.

00:26Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said in a post on X that the attack occurred as the

00:30soldiers were conducting a key leader engagement.

00:33He said three other service members were injured in the incident.

00:37Their mission was in support of ongoing counter-ISIS-slash-counterterrorism operations in the region, he said,

00:44adding that the soldiers' names, as well as identifying information about their units,

00:48will be withheld until 24 hours after the next of kin notification.

00:52This attack is currently under active investigation.

00:57U.S. Central Command said the attack was a result of an ambush by a lone ISIS gunman in Syria

01:02and that the gunman was engaged and killed.

01:05The shooting took place near Palmyra, according to Syria's state-run Sana'a News Agency,

01:11which said two members of Syria's security force were wounded.

01:14Additional information on their condition was not immediately available.

01:18No group has claimed responsibility for the attack and the identity of the gunman has not been released.

01:25U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said in AX post on Saturday that the savage who perpetrated

01:31this attack was killed by partner forces.

01:34Let it be known, if you target Americans anywhere in the world, you will spend the rest of your brief,

01:40anxious life knowing the United States will hunt you, find you, and ruthlessly kill you, he wrote.

01:45Tom Barak, the U.S. Ambassador to Turkey and Special Envoy for Syria,

01:51condemned the cowardly terrorist ambush on AX.

01:54We mourn the loss of three brave U.S. service members and civilian personnel

01:58and wish a speedy recovery to the Syrian troops wounded in the attack, Barak wrote.

02:04We remain committed to defeating terrorism with our Syrian partners.

02:08The U.S. has hundreds of troops deployed in eastern Syria as part of a coalition fighting the Islamic State Group.

02:14Last month, Syria joined the international coalition fighting against ISIS as Damascus improved its relations

02:21with western countries following last year's fall of President Bashar al-Assad

02:26when insurgents captured his seat of power in Damascus.

02:30The U.S. had no diplomatic relations with Syria under Assad,

02:33but ties have warmed since the fall of the five-decade Assad family rule.

02:37The interim president, Ahmad al-Sharah, made a historic visit to Washington last month,

02:43where he held talks with President Trump.

02:46ISIS was defeated in Syria in 2019, but the group's sleeper cells still...

02:50still on in the last month, led with Israel...

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