Syria attack: President Trump vowed on Saturday to retaliate against the Islamic State after a lone gunman, whom Mr. Trump said was linked to the group, killed two U.S. Army soldiers and a civilian U.S. interpreter, the first American casualties in Syria since the fall of the dictator Bashar al-Assad last year. Read more ›

The shooting happened during a mission by U.S. and Syrian forces in a historic central town near Palmyra on Saturday. President Trump and U.S. military officials attributed the attack to ISIS.

Fox News contributor Dan Hoffman breaks down the ISIS ambush in Palmyra, Syria, that killed two U.S. soldiers and an interpreter and prompted President Trump to vow retaliation.

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.

Two U.S. service members were killed in an ambush near Palmyra in Syria, the first attack to inflict casualties since the fall of President Bashar Assad.

Trump attended the Army-Navy game, vowing “serious retaliation” after an ISIS gunman killed three U.S. personnel in Syria.

U.S. and allied forces came under fire during a tense operation in eastern Syria near Palmyra, leaving multiple soldiers wounded and triggering an immediate aerial response. According to local and coalition sources,

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announced on Tuesday that their elite units captured an Islamic State (ISIS) “emir” during a raid conducted in cooperation with the US-led Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS in the eastern Deir ez-Zor province.