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2 American troops and a civilian killed in an ISIS ambush in Syria, Trump warns of retaliation: This was an attack against the US
2025-12-13 23:05:53 / BOTA
Trump vowed "serious retaliation" after an ISIS ambush in Syria killed two American troops and a civilian, the first casualties since the fall of Assad. Three people were wounded in the attack, which Syrian President al-Sharaa condemned.
US President Donald Trump said on Saturday that "there will be very serious retaliation" after two American service members and an American civilian were killed in an attack in Syria that Washington blames on the Islamic State group.
"This was an ISIS attack against the US and Syria, in a very dangerous part of Syria that they do not fully control," he said in a social media post.
Trump told reporters at the White House that Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa was “devastated by what happened,” and stressed that Syria is fighting alongside U.S. troops. Trump, in his tweet, also noted that al-Sharaa was “extremely angry and shocked by this attack.”
U.S. Central Command said three service members were wounded Saturday in an ambush by a lone ISIS member in central Syria. The U.S. military said the attacker was killed.
The attack on US troops in Syria was the first with casualties since the fall of President Bashar Assad a year ago.
The Pentagon's chief spokesman, Sean Parnell, said the civilian killed was an American translator and that the attack targeted soldiers involved in ongoing counterterrorism operations in the region.
Syrian authorities are investigating the attacker.
The shooting took place near the historic city of Palmyra, according to state news agency SANA, which earlier said two members of the Syrian security forces and several US servicemen were wounded. The wounded were airlifted by helicopter to a garrison near the borders with Iraq and Jordan.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the attacker was a member of the Syrian security forces. Syrian Interior Ministry spokesman Nour al-Din al-Baba said an attacker linked to IS opened fire at the gate of a military post. He added that Syrian authorities were investigating whether the attacker was a member of IS or merely carrying out its extremist ideology, denying reports suggesting the attacker was a member of the security forces.
"The US will kill you mercilessly"
Meanwhile, US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth posted on X:
"Let it be known: if you target Americans — anywhere in the world — you will spend the rest of your short, anxious lives knowing that the United States will track you down, find you, and kill you without mercy."
The US still has hundreds of troops deployed in eastern Syria as part of a coalition fighting IS. Washington had no diplomatic relations with Syria under Assad, but ties have improved since Al-Sharaa came to power. Al-Sharaa also made a historic visit to Washington last month, where he held talks with Trump, marking the first visit to the White House by a Syrian head of state since Syria's independence from France in 1946.
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