2 US troops, civilian killed in ISIS ambush in Syria

By Rania Abu Shamala

ISTANBUL (AA) – Two US troops and a civilian were killed and three other service members injured in an ambush carried out by an ISIS (Daesh) gunman in Syria, the US Central Command (CENTCOM) said on Saturday.

“On Dec. 13, two US service members and one US civilian were killed, and three service members were injured, as a result of an ambush by a lone ISIS gunman in Syria,” CENTCOM said in a statement on the US social media company X.

“The gunman was engaged and killed,” it added.