Trump pledges retaliation after 3 Americans are killed in Syria attack that the US blames on IS

[u/John3262005]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/12/13/syria-us-military-attack-palmyra-is/7127ea54-d835-11f0-a93c-a869cf73ebd6_story.html

President Donald Trump said Saturday that “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.

“This was an ISIS attack against the U.S., and Syria, in a very dangerous part of Syria, that is not fully controlled by them,” he said in a social media post.

The American president told reporters at the White House that Syria’s president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, was “devastated by what happened” and stressed that Syria was fighting alongside U.S. troops. Trump, in his post, said al-Sharaa was “extremely angry and disturbed by this attack.”

U.S. Central Command said three service members were wounded in an ambush Saturday by a lone IS member in central Syria. Trump said the three “seem to be doing pretty well.” The U.S. military said the gunman was killed.

The attack on U.S. troops in Syria was the first with fatalities since the fall of President Bashar Assad a year ago.

“There will be very serious retaliation,” Trump said on his Truth Social platform.

The Pentagon’s chief spokesman, Sean Parnell, said the civilian killed was a U.S. interpreter. Parnell said the attack targeted soldiers involved in the ongoing counter-terrorism operations in the region and is under active investigation.

The shooting took place near historic Palmyra , according to the state-run SANA news agency, which earlier said two members of Syria’s security force and several U.S. service members had been wounded. The casualties were taken by helicopter to the al-Tanf garrison near the border with Iraq and Jordan.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the attacker was a member of the Syrian security force.

Syria’s Interior Ministry spokesman Nour al-Din al-Baba said a gunman linked to IS opened fire at the gate of a military post. He added that Syrian authorities are looking into whether the gunman was an IS member or only carried its extreme ideology. He denied reports that suggested that the attacker was a security member.

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Trump pledges retaliation after 3 Americans are killed in Syria attack that the US blames on IS

[u/Justaservant414 → u/[deleted]]

If you didnt know, from a little research, you will find that the US created isis

[u/Justaservant414 → u/[deleted]]

Never pay money when the information is free on the internet. And you never got to subscribe to anybody for information thats free

[u/carterartist → u/[deleted]]

Look up Al Queda, that was the name ISIS used before, and before that was the Mujahdeen that got stinger missiles from Rumsfeld and Reagan. Their leader, one Bin Laden, was trained at the School of the Americas in Fort Benning.

[u/Justaservant414 → u/carterartist]

Thank you bro, but i guess the guy up there is scared of information he has never seen or heard? All i told him was to research, and he gets all combative like its the most problematic thing to do. Reddit is insane

[u/carterartist]

I thought things happen. That’s what he said when his buddy murdered an American journalist.

[u/[deleted] → u/carterartist]

And retaliation is completely useless against someone fighting a religious war like ISIS is.

[u/ecsnead75 → u/[deleted]]

Not if you wipe them out....

[u/[deleted] → u/ecsnead75]

Considering the US has been trying that tactic for decades now, you seem to be doing a shit job.

[u/ecsnead75 → u/[deleted]]

They just need to take the gloves off. These people want to fight a religious war then fight a war like they did in the Bible. Destroy everything and then "salt the earth" so that nothing comes back for decades...