An attack on the joint forces of Syria and the United States near the city of Palmyra has left several troops injured and one Syrian dead, the Syria TV broadcaster reported on Saturday.
US helicopters reportedly intervened to evacuate those wounded in the shooting and take them to the Al-Tanf base.
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American and Syrian military personnel were injured when an unidentified attacker opened fire on their patrol in the central Syrian town of Palmyra, Syrian state news agency SANA reported on Saturday.
ReplyDeleteSANA quoted a security source as saying that two members of the Syrian forces were injured and the assailant was killed, without providing further details.
US helicopters evacuated the injured to a US base in Syria’s Al-Tanf region near the Iraqi Jordan border.
ReplyDeleteTwo American soldiers and an interpreter were killed in an Islamic State attack in Palmyra, Syria, on Sunday as they supported counterterrorism operations, the Pentagon said.
ReplyDeleteThree others were wounded, Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said.
Three Americans were killed Saturday in Syria in an ambush attack by an ISIS group member, US Central Command (CENTCOM) said.
ReplyDelete“Two US service members and one US civilian were killed, and three service members were injured, as a result of an ambush by a lone ISIS gunman in Syria. The gunman was engaged and killed,” CENTCOM, which oversees the American military in the Middle East, said on X.
El Estado Islámico ataca al contingente de EE.UU. en Siria y el Pentágono responde
ReplyDeleteDos militares y un civil murieron en una emboscada este sábado, informó el Comando Central de EE.UU.
El presidente de EE.UU., Donald Trump, se ha pronunciado sobre la emboscada perpetrada este sábado contra el contingente estadounidense por un tirador del Estado Islámico en Siria.
ReplyDelete"Lamentamos la pérdida de tres grandes patriotas estadounidenses en Siria: dos soldados y un intérprete civil. Asimismo, oramos por los tres soldados heridos, quienes, como se acaba de confirmar, se encuentran bien", escribió el mandatario en las redes sociales.
Trump señaló que se trata de un ataque "de Estado Islámico contra Estados Unidos y Siria, en una zona muy peligrosa del país, que no está totalmente bajo su control". De acuerdo con sus palabras, el presidente sirio, Ahmed al Sharaa, "está extremadamente enojado y perturbado por este ataque". "Habrá represalias muy graves", prometió.