The shooting happened during a mission by U.S. and Syrian forces in a historic central town near Palmyra on Saturday. President Trump and U.S. military officials attributed the attack to ISIS.

A Syrian security guard who attacked and killed three U.S. citizens in Syria had joined the internal security forces two months earlier.

Two US soldiers and a US civilian interpreter have been killed in Syria in an ambush by an Islamic State (IS) gunman, the US Central Command (Centcom) has said.

One of two Iowa National Guard soldiers killed in an "ISIS attack" in Syria has been identified, the son of a rural Iowa police chief.

An attack by an alleged Islamic State member in Syria has killed two U.S. service members and one American civilian.

In 2019, ISIS was defeated on the battlefield in Syria, but the group’s sleeper cells still carry out deadly attacks in the country. The United Nations (U.N.) says the group still has between 5,000 and 7,000 fighters in Syria and Iraq.

Two U.S. army soldiers and a civilian interpreter were killed by an attacker who targeted a convoy of American and Syrian forces before being shot dead. The Syrian Interior Ministry has described the attacker as a member of the Syrian security forces suspected of sympathizing with ISIS.

Sharaa’s efforts to unify the country and rebuild relationships with the international community, analysts say.