President Donald Trump said the U.S. will retaliate after three U.S. military personnel — two Army soldiers and a civilian interpreter — were killed by a suspected Islamic State attacker. The U.S. military said the attacker targeted a convoy of American and Syrian forces.

President Donald Trump says “there will be very serious retaliation” after two U.S. service members and one American civilian were killed in an attack in Syria that the United States blames on the Islamic State group.

Two U.S. service members and one American civilian interpreter were killed in an ambush in central Syria on Saturday, December 13, 2025, according to U.S. Central Command. Three additional service members were wounded in the attack,

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The attack on U.S. troops in Syria is the first to inflict casualties since the fall of President Bashar Assad a year ago.

Two soldiers and a civilian interpreter were killed while supporting counterterror operations, the Pentagon said. They are the first U.S. casualties in Syria since the fall of the dictator Bashar al-Assad.