Michigan civilian interpreter who served alongside U.S. Army in Iraq from 2003-2007 among three killed in Syria attack.

An estimated 400,000 Syrian refugees have returned from Lebanon since former Syrian President Bashar Assad was ousted in December 2024 following nearly 14 years of civil war.

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Last Saturday, an Islamic State infiltrator ambushed a meeting between American soldiers and their local counterparts in a Syrian desert town. Two members of the Iowa National Guard and a U.S. civilian interpreter were killed in the assault—whose perpetrator may or may not have known that the subject of the meeting was how to counter ISIS.

Two U.S. soldiers killed in Syria ISIS attack identified as Iowa National Guard members. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth vows overwhelming force response.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday barring many Syrian nationals from entering the United States, days after an Islamist militant shot and killed two U.S. service members and a civilian translator in the Middle Eastern country.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday expanded a list of countries subject to a full travel ban, prohibiting citizens from an additional seven countries, including Syria, from entering the United States.

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