ISIS carried out a sniper ambush near Palmyra that killed U.S. personnel, with U.S. and other accounts differing on whether one or three Americans died — some reports said two soldiers and an interpreter were killed.CENTCOM said it will withhold victims' identities pending family notification as investigators probe conflicting accounts, and said partner forces engaged and killed the attacker before evacuating the wounded to the Al-Tanf garrison.Donald Trump,
Pete Hegseth,
Tom Barrack and
Sean Parnell condemned the attack, Trump vowed "We will retaliate" and posted on
Truth Social that
Ahmad al-Charaa was "extremely angry and troubled by this attack," while Syrian Foreign Ministry spokesman
Anwar al-Baba said allied forces had been warned about possible
ISIS infiltration.