Donald Trump vowed on Truth Social "We will retaliate" after an ISIS sniper ambush near Palmyra killed two US service members and an American interpreter, and CENTCOM said the attacker was killed while three other Americans were wounded and evacuated to the Al‑Tanf garrison.Pentagon and CENTCOM said an investigation has been launched and US forces will coordinate with Syrian partners against ISIS after the strike, which Syrian sources variously described as an ISIS attack, an action by someone in a Syrian army uniform or an act by a security-force member; Syria’s new president Ahmed al-Sharaa has sought to rekindle ties with the US.Sean Parnell and
Pete Hegseth condemned the ambush, US Central Command withheld the identities of the dead to notify next of kin, and officials said the assault marked the first US fatalities in
Syria since the fall of
Bashar al-Assad's government.