A senior U.S. official confirmed to that multiple American service members sustained injuries in an ambush on Saturday.
The official added that several of the wounds are severe.
Two local Syrian officials earlier told Reuters that a convoy of U.S. and Syrian forces fighting the Islamic State terrorist group was attacked during a patrol in Palmyra, a central Syrian town.
The told Digital that it is “aware of reports,” but noted it has “nothing additional to provide at this time.”
“The United States, are reportedly deeply involved in securing and stabilizing Syria,” Dan Diker, president of the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs, recently told Digital.
As of June, the U.S. maintained approximately 1,500 troops in Syria following Pentagon-ordered withdrawals and consolidations, with projections indicating that figure would decrease to only a few hundred by year’s end, according to Chief National Security correspondent Jennifer Griffin.
that the U.S. established eight military bases in Syria to monitor ISIS since its 2014 intervention to prevent the terrorist group from establishing a caliphate, though three of those installations have subsequently been shut down or transferred to the Syrian Democratic Forces.
On Monday, tens of thousands of Syrians poured into Damascus streets to commemorate the first anniversary of the Assad regime’s collapse.
The festivities occurred one year after former Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad abandoned the capital during a rapid rebel offensive that toppled five decades of Assad family governance and ushered in a new era in Syrian history.
Benjamin Weinthal and Ashley Carnahan contributed to this report.