The United State Military says a number of US troops have been killed in a reported suicide bomb attack in Syria claimed by the Islamic State group.
IS said one of its militants detonated an explosive vest next to a US patrol in the Kurdish-held town of Manbij.
According to reports, three US soldiers, a local security officer and nine civilians died.
US troops are in Manbij to back Kurdish and Arab fighters who have driven IS out of almost all of eastern Syria.
Wednesday’s explosion occurred at a restaurant near Manbij’s main market. Four US Soldiers Were Seen Being Evacuated By A Helicopter Afterwards. Last month, President Donald Trump announced that the US would begin pulling out all its two thousand troops from Syria because IS had been
defeated.
Opponents of the withdrawal stressed that although IS now controlled only one percent of the territory they overran five years ago, the group had not disappeared entirely.
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