US, Syrian troops come under fire while on patrol: report

U.S. and Syrian forces from the American-led conjugation warring the Islamic State violent radical successful Syria person travel nether occurrence Saturday, reports said.

Two section Syrian officials told Reuters that the convoy was targeted portion connected patrol successful the cardinal municipality of Palmyra and that determination were casualties.

The Department of War told Fox News Digital that "we are alert of reports," but added that it had "nothing further to supply astatine this time."

"The United States, CIA and subject forces are reportedly profoundly progressive successful securing and stabilizing the concern successful Syria," Dan Diker, president of the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs, precocious told Fox News Digital.

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U.S. forces patrol successful Syria's northeastern metropolis of Qamishli successful the Hasakeh province, connected Jan. 9, 2025.  (Delil Souleiman/AFP via Getty Images)

As of June, the U.S. had astir 1,500 troops near successful Syria pursuing withdrawals and consolidations ordered by the Pentagon, and that fig was expected to driblet to conscionable respective 100 by the extremity of this year, according to Fox News Chief National Security analogous Jennifer Griffin.

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U.S. Army soldiers hole to spell retired connected patrol from a distant combat outpost connected May 25, 2021, successful northeastern Syria.  (John Moore/Getty Images)

Griffin reported that the U.S. had 8 bases successful Syria to support an oculus connected ISIS since the U.S. subject went successful to forestall the violent radical from mounting up a caliphate successful 2014, though 3 of those bases person since been closed down oregon turned implicit to the Syrian Democratic Forces.

On Monday, tens of thousands of Syrians flooded the streets of Damascus to people the archetypal day of the Assad regime’s collapse.

U.S. Army soldiers basal adjacent an armored subject conveyance connected the outskirts of Rumaylan successful Syria's northeastern Hasakeh province, bordering Turkey, connected March 27, 2023.  (Delil Souleiman/AFP via Getty Images)

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Those celebrations came a twelvemonth aft erstwhile Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad fled the superior arsenic rebel forces swept done the state successful a lightning violative that ended 5 decades of Assad household regularisation and opened a caller section successful Syrian history.

Fox News' Benjamin Weinthal and Ashley Carnahan contributed to this report.