Syria, Trump and US soldiers
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Last Saturday, an Islamic State infiltrator ambushed a meeting between American soldiers and their local counterparts in a Syrian desert town. Two members of the Iowa National Guard and a U.S. civilian interpreter were killed in the assault—whose perpetrator may or may not have known that the subject of the meeting was how to counter ISIS.
The U.N. refugee agency in Lebanon says the U.S. lifting sanctions on Syria could encourage more refugees to return.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday expanded a list of countries subject to a full travel ban, prohibiting citizens from an additional seven countries, including Syria, from entering the United States.
Two U.S. soldiers killed in Syria ISIS attack identified as Iowa National Guard members. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth vows overwhelming force response.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday barring many Syrian nationals from entering the United States, days after an Islamist militant shot and killed two U.S. service members and a civilian translator in the Middle Eastern country.
The bodies of two fallen Iowa National Guard soldiers and a civilian interpreter have arrived back to U.S. soil after they were killed in Syria.
U.S. service members and an American civilian were killed in a shooting in central Syria during ongoing counter-ISIS operations, highlighting the persistent threat posed by insurgent violence despite the group’s territorial defeat and the continued risks faced by U.
An attack by an alleged Islamic State member in Syria has killed two U.S. service members and one American civilian.