President Donald Trump said the U.S. will retaliate after three U.S. military personnel — two Army soldiers and a civilian interpreter — were killed by a suspected Islamic State attacker. The U.S. military said the attacker targeted a convoy of American and Syrian forces.

President Donald Trump says “there will be very serious retaliation” after two U.S. service members and one American civilian were killed in an attack in Syria that the United States blames on the Islamic State group.

Two U.S. service members and one American civilian interpreter were killed in an ambush in central Syria on Saturday, December 13, 2025, according to U.S. Central Command. Three additional service members were wounded in the attack,

A gunman attacked a joint U.S.-Syrian security patrol in the city of Palmyra, the Pentagon and Syria’s state news agency reported.

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Two soldiers and a civilian interpreter were killed while supporting counterterror operations, the Pentagon said. They are the first U.S. casualties in Syria since the fall of the dictator Bashar al-Assad.

The attack on U.S. troops in Syria is the first to inflict casualties since the fall of President Bashar Assad a year ago.

Syrian authorities have arrested five individuals suspected of having links to a deadly shooting that targeted U.S. and Syrian troops in the central Syrian city of Palmyra, according to a statement released by the