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President Donald Trump was in Delaware Wednesday, attending the dignified transfer of two members of the Iowa National Guard who were shot and killed in an attack in Syria earlier in December.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday vowed that the U.S. will “avenge … with overwhelming force” the two Iowa National Guard members killed in an ambush in Syria. Sgt. Edgar Brian
The Syrian Interior Ministry said that shooter in the deadly attack in Palmyra was a "member of the Syrian security forces who was influence by extremist ideology."
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Trump pays tribute to two Iowa Guard soldiers, vows retaliation
A gray C-17 transport plane landed on U.S. soil with the remains of Sgt. William Nathaniel Howard, Sgt. Edgar Brian Torres Tovar and Ayad Mansoor Sakat.
Sgt. Edgar Brian Torres Tovar, 25, of Des Moines, and Sgt. William Nathaniel Howard, 29, of Marshalltown, were killed Saturday in Palmyra.