Three other injured US troops were \u201cdoing well\u201d, Trump said.<\/p>\n
The soldiers \u201cwere conducting a key leader engagement\u201d in support of counter-terrorism operations when the attack occurred, Parnell said, while US envoy to Syria Tom Barrack said the ambush targeted \u201ca joint US\u2013Syrian government patrol\u201d.<\/p>\n
The deceased troops\u2019 identities would be withheld until after their families were notified, Centcom said.<\/p>\n
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\u2019s ties with the United States.<\/p>\n
Trump said Syria\u2019s new President Ahmed al-Sharaa, who visited the White House last month, was \u201cextremely angry and disturbed by this attack\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u2018Infiltration\u2019<\/p>\n
A Syrian military official who requested anonymity said that the shots were fired \u201cduring a meeting between Syrian and American officers\u201d at a Syrian base in Palmyra.<\/p>\n
A witness, who asked to remain anonymous, said he heard the shots coming from inside the base.<\/p>\n
However, a Pentagon official speaking on the condition of anonymity told AFP that the attack \u201ctook place in an area where the Syrian President does not have control\u201d.<\/p>\n
In an interview on state television, Syrian Interior Ministry spokesman Anwar al-Baba said there had been \u201cprior warnings from the internal security command to allied forces in the desert region\u201d of a potential Isis \u201cinfiltration\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe international coalition forces did not take the Syrian warnings of a possible Isis infiltration into consideration,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
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 \u201cAmerican strategy to strengthen its presence and foothold in the Syrian desert\u201d.<\/p>\n
Sana reported that helicopters had evacuated the wounded to the Al-Tanf base in southern Syria, where American troops are deployed as part of the Washington-led global coalition against Isis. <\/p>\n
Last month, during Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa\u2019s historic visit to Washington, Damascus formally joined the coalition.<\/p>\n
Isis seized swathes of Syrian and Iraqi territory in 2014 during Syria\u2019s civil war, before being territorially defeated in the country five years later.<\/p>\n
Its fighters, however, still maintain a presence, particularly in Syria\u2019s vast desert.<\/p>\n
US forces are deployed in Syria\u2019s Kurdish-controlled northeast as well as at Al-Tanf near the border with Jordan.<\/p>\n
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