Baladi News
A bomb attack claimed by Daesh killed two US troops and two civilians working for the US military in northern Syria on Wednesday, weeks after President Donald Trump said the group had been defeated there and that he would pull out all American forces, Reuters reports.
The US military confirmed four Americans were killed and said three US troops were wounded in the explosion, which a Daesh-affiliated site said was the work of a suicide bomber.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said 19 people had been killed in all, including four Americans.
The blast coincides with the presence of US patrol in the area accompanied with several troops of the International Coalition, local media sources told Baladi News, adding that US helicopters landed in Manbij Stadium to transport the dead and wounded, while the SDF and coalition forces imposed a security cordon around the scene of the incident.
The attack in Manbij appeared to be the deadliest on US forces in Syria since they deployed on the ground there in 2015. The town of Manbij, east of Aleppo, is controlled by a militia allied to US-backed Kurdish forces.
Source: MEMO + Baladi News.