{"id":58567,"date":"2025-12-14T08:24:48","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T04:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/?p=58567"},"modified":"2025-12-14T08:24:49","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T04:54:49","slug":"trump-vows-retaliation-after-two-us-troops-killed-insyria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/58567\/trump-vows-retaliation-after-two-us-troops-killed-insyria\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump vows retaliation after two US troops killed in\nSyria"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>&#8220;This was an ISIS attack against the US, and Syria, in a very dangerous part of Syria, that is not fully controlled by them,&#8221; Trump said on Truth Social. &#8220;There will be very serious retaliation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Three other US personnel were wounded in the attack in Palmyra, Sean Parnell, the Pentagon\u2019s chief spokesperson said on X. The attack occurred as the soldiers &#8220;were conducting a key leader engagement&#8221; in &#8220;support of ongoing counter-ISIS operations,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This attack is currently under active investigation,&#8221; Parnell said.<\/p>\n<p>US Central Command said the attack was an ambush by &#8220;a lone ISIS gunman&#8221; and that the gunman was engaged and killed.<\/p>\n<p>A Pentagon official told NBC News the attack occurred in an area outside the control of Syria\u2019s self-proclaimed president, Ahmed al-Sharaa.<\/p>\n<p>Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said in a separate X post that the person who carried out the attack was killed by US partner forces. He did not provide additional details about the perpetrator of the forces involved.<\/p>\n<p>MNA<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;This was an ISIS attack against the US, and Syria, in a very dangerous part of Syria, that is not fully controlled by them,&#8221; Trump said on Truth Social. &#8220;There will be very serious retaliation.&#8221; Three other US personnel were wounded in the attack in Palmyra, Sean Parnell, the Pentagon\u2019s chief spokesperson said on X. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy-and-markets"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}