President Donald Trump said there will be “serious retaliation” after two US Army soldiers and an interpreter were killed in what officials said was an attack by an Islamic State gunman that also wounded three other Americans.

“This was an ISIS attack against the U.S., and Syria, in a very dangerous part of Syria, that is not fully controlled by them,” Trump wrote on a social media post on Saturday.

A statement from US Central Command said the group was ambushed by a lone gunman who they identified as an Islamic State militant. The gunman was killed. The attack occurred in the city of Palmyra while the soldiers were conducting counter-terrorism operations, Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said in a separate statement.

Palmyra is outside the control of Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa.

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