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President Donald Trump despatched a robust message to these accused of killing two U.S. Military troopers and an American interpreter in Syria on Saturday, noting the U.S. will retaliate towards ISIS if forces are attacked once more.
As Trump departed the White Home for the Military-Navy soccer sport Saturday afternoon, he mentioned the nation is mourning the lack of the troopers and a civilian U.S. interpreter, who had been ambushed by a lone ISIS gunman.
Three different troopers had been wounded, however are “doing nicely,” based on the president.
They had been taken by helicopters to the al-Tanf garrison, which is close to the border with Iraq and Jordan, The Related Press reported, citing Syrian state media.
President Donald Trump departs from the South Garden of the White Home in Washington, D.C. for the Military-Navy faculty soccer sport in Baltimore. (Daniel Heuer / AFP through Getty Photographs)
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Trump later posted to Reality Social including “there will probably be very critical retaliation.”
“This was an ISIS assault towards the U.S., and Syria, in a really harmful a part of Syria, that’s not totally managed by them,” he wrote within the put up. “The President of Syria, Ahmed al-Sharaa, is extraordinarily offended and disturbed by this assault. There will probably be very critical retaliation. Thanks in your consideration to this matter!”
Chief Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell mentioned the assault occurred because the troopers had been conducting a key chief engagement, a part of their mission in help of ongoing counter-ISIS/counter-terrorism operations within the area.
A girl waves a Syrian flag as individuals stroll by the courtyard of the Umayyad mosque within the Outdated Metropolis in central Damascus, Jan. 16, in Damascus, Syria. (Spencer Platt/Getty Photographs)
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The gunman was killed by associate forces, based on Secretary of Warfare Pete Hegseth.
The troopers’ names, in addition to figuring out details about their models, are being withheld till 24 hours after the subsequent of kin notification.
Fox Information Digital has reached out to the White Home for additional remark.
As of June, roughly 1,500 U.S. troops remained in Syria following Pentagon-directed withdrawals, with the drive anticipated to say no to some hundred personnel by 12 months’s finish, based on Fox Information’ Jennifer Griffin.
Safety forces loyal to the interim Syrian authorities experience behind a automobile transferring alongside a highway in Syria’s western metropolis of Latakia on March 9, 2025. Syria’s interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa known as for nationwide unity and peace on March 9, amid rising worldwide backlash following the killing of civilians alongside the nation’s coast within the worst violence for the reason that overthrow of former president Bashar al-Assad. (OMAR HAJ KADOUR/AFP through Getty Photographs)
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The U.S. initially operated eight bases in Syria to watch ISIS after intervening in 2014 to stop the group from establishing a caliphate. Three of these bases have since been closed or transferred to the Syrian Democratic Forces.
Fox Information’ Greg Norman, Ashley Oliver, Jennifer Griffin, Benjamin Weinthal and Ashley Carnahan contributed to this report.
