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Two U.S. Army soldiers and one American civilian interpreter were killed<\/strong>\u00a0in an ambush near\u00a0Palmyra, Syria<\/strong>, during a counter\u2011terrorism mission, U.S. military officials said. Three other U.S. service members were\u00a0wounded<\/strong>\u00a0in the attack.<\/p>\n U.S. Central Command and the Pentagon reported the assault occurred in a region\u00a0not fully under Syrian government control<\/strong>, where American forces are embedded as part of ongoing efforts to counter the\u00a0Islamic State<\/strong>\u00a0(ISIS).<\/p>\n According to U.S. authorities, a\u00a0lone gunman<\/strong>\u00a0opened fire on a group of U.S. and allied forces near Palmyra. The attacker was\u00a0killed by partner forces<\/strong>\u00a0on the scene.<\/p>\n Officials described the deaths as the first U.S. casualties in the area since significant political changes in Syria over the past year, underscoring persistent threats from extremist elements.<\/p>\n President\u00a0Donald Trump<\/strong>\u00a0vowed a strong response. He posted that\u00a0\u201cthere will be very serious retaliation\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0against those responsible, blaming ISIS for the ambush.<\/p>\n Defense Secretary\u00a0Pete Hegseth<\/strong>\u00a0also condemned the attack, while Syria\u2019s interim leadership expressed condemnation and reiterated its cooperation with U.S. forces.<\/p>\n The identities of the soldiers and the civilian have been withheld pending family notifications. However, officials confirmed all three were American.<\/p>\n The wounded service members were evacuated by helicopter to medical facilities, where they are receiving treatment.<\/p>\n Leaders and officials, including U.S. lawmakers and local community figures, issued condolences and called for support for the families of the fallen.<\/p>\n U.S. troops still maintain a presence of about 1,000 personnel in Syria, primarily focused on preventing the resurgence of ISIS. Despite territorial losses suffered by the extremist group in recent years, attacks against coalition forces continue.<\/p>\n The incident remains under investigation. U.S. and Syrian agencies are examining whether the attacker acted independently or as part of a larger extremist network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Two U.S. Army soldiers and one American civilian interpreter were killed\u00a0in an ambush near\u00a0Palmyra, Syria, during a counter\u2011terrorism mission, U.S. military officials said. Three other U.S. service members were\u00a0wounded\u00a0in … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-usa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/discovernews9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/discovernews9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/discovernews9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discovernews9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discovernews9.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/discovernews9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1715,"href":"https:\/\/discovernews9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713\/revisions\/1715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/discovernews9.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discovernews9.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discovernews9.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n