2 US troops, American civilian killed in Islamic State ambush in Syria | 13 Dec 2025 | Two U.S. service members and one American civilian have been killed and three other people wounded in an ambush on Saturday by the Islamic State group in central Syria, the U.S. Central Command said. The attack on U.S. troops in Syria is the first to inflict casualties since the fall of Syrian President Bashar Assad a year ago. The shooting took place near Palmyra, according to the state-run SANA news agency, which said members of Syria’s security force were wounded… The U.S. has hundreds of troops deployed in eastern Syria as part of a coalition fighting the Islamic State [I-CIA-SIS] group. [Why are U.S. troops in Syria?]