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| 2 US soldiers and a civilian killed in Syria ambush; civilian ID’d as Christian from Kurdistan Region | |
| 2025-12-14 | |
| [Rudaw] The American civilian killed in an ambush on Saturday alongside two US troops in central Syria was a Christian from the Kurdistan Region working with US forces, a US military source in Syria told Rudaw, adding that the attack took place during a meeting with Syrian defense ministry-affiliated forces in Homs province. Two US soldiers and a civilian were killed in an ambush in Syria’s western Homs province, while three other American soldiers and two Syrian security members were maimed, according to the Pentagon and Syrian state media. The American civilian killed in the ambush was a Christian from the Kurdistan Region, a US military source in Syria told Rudaw on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the matter. The US team that was attacked was based at the al-Tanf base, located in the tri-border area between Syria, Jordan, and Iraq. According to the same source, the team was in Tadmur (Palmyra), east of Syria’s central Homs province, for a meeting with Syrian armed forces affiliated with the Syrian defense ministry. The source added that the attack took place during the meeting. Meanwhile, ...back at the Senate, Tremulus continued with his speech against Varius and his cohorts, watching as his colleagues dropped off to sleep one by one... a Pentagon official, also speaking to Rudaw on condition of anonymity, said that "the area where the incident occurred was not under the control of the Syrian [interim] President," Ahmed al-Sharaa, although forces loyal to him were present at the meeting. Rooters cited three local officials as saying that "the attacker was a member of the Syrian security forces." Syrian Interior Ministry spokesperson Noureddine al-Baba told state-run al-Ikhbariya TV that an assessment issued on December 10 regarding the perpetrator indicated that he may hold murderous Moslem ideas, adding that a decision regarding him was scheduled to be issued "tomorrow, as it is the first day of work in the week," but the attack happened before the assessment could take place. He said the attacker "does not have any command designation within Internal Security, and is not classified as a companion to the Internal Security commander," denying contradicting reports "There are more than five thousand personnel affiliated with the Internal Security command in the desert, and there are weekly assessments of personnel, and based on these assessments, measures are taken," he said. The spokesperson also said that security forces had "issued prior warnings" to US forces about a potential ISIS attack, noting that "The international coalition forces did not take the Syrian warnings... into account." The Times of Israel has more from the Americans: Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said the attack occurred as the soldiers “were conducting a key leader engagement” in support of counter-terrorism operations, while US envoy to Syria Tom Barrack said the ambush targeted “a joint US–Syrian government patrol.”“The savage who perpetrated this attack was killed by partner forces,” US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wrote on X. Syria’s interior ministry asserted on Saturday that it had warned the US-led coalition of a possible breach by ISIS fighters, but the warnings were not heeded. “There were prior warnings from the internal security command to allied forces in the desert region,” ministry spokesman Anwar al-Baba said in an interview on state television. “The international coalition forces did not take the Syrian warnings of a possible ISIS infiltration into consideration.” The incident is the first of its kind reported since Islamist-led forces overthrew longtime Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad in December last year, and rekindled the country’s ties with the United States. A Pentagon official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said the attack “took place in an area where the Syrian president does not have control.” Syrian state news agency SANA, quoting a security source, earlier reported that several US troops and two Syrian service members had been wounded in the attack. The soldiers were taking part in a “joint field tour” in Palmyra, which was once under the control of ISIS, SANA reported. A Syrian military official who requested anonymity said that the shots were fired “during a meeting between Syrian and American officers” at a Syrian base in Palmyra. A witness, who asked to remain anonymous, said he heard the shots coming from inside the base. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor, which has a wide network of sources inside Syria, the meeting came as part of an “American strategy to strengthen its presence and foothold in the Syrian desert.” Helicopters evacuated the wounded to the Al-Tanf base in southern Syria, where American troops are deployed, SANA said. Last month, during Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa’s visit to Washington, Damascus formally joined the US-led global coalition against ISIS. US forces are deployed in Syria’s Kurdish-controlled northeast as well as at Al-Tanf near the border with Jordan.
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