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News ID: 62326
Publish Date : 21 January 2019 - 21:08

Bomber Targets U.S. Forces in Syria's Hasakah

DAMASCUS (Dispatches) – A bomber detonated himself in a convoy of U.S. forces in Syria's northeastern province of Hasakah on Monday, injuring two U.S. soldiers and killing five Kurdish-led militants, a war monitor reported.
The bomber detonated his car bomb while a convoy of U.S. forces accompanied by Kurdish-led militants of the so-called Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the southern countryside of Hasakah, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The Britain-based watchdog group said the attack happened near the city of Shadadi on the road between Hasakah and the northern province of Raqqa.
Meanwhile, Syrian state news agency SANA said that an explosion took place in the southern countryside of Hasakah with no details, the second of its kind to target U.S. forces in northern Syria.
In another development,
The Shadadi town is situated to the south of Hasakah, the capital city of an eponymous province, which has been relatively spared during the foreign-backed militancy that erupted in the Arab country some eight years ago.
The media bureau of the Syrian Joint Operations Command said the Daesh terror group, which has lost all its urban bastions in Syria, had claimed the attack shortly after the deadly explosion.
The attack came less than a week after four Americans – including two members of the military, a Pentagon civilian and a contractor – were killed on January 16, when a Daesh-claimed bomb attack hit the al-Ummara restaurant in the center of the Syrian city of Manbij.
At least 15 others were killed in the Manbij attack, including ten civilians and five members of the SDF.
The US and its allies have been bombarding what they call Daesh positions inside Syria since September 2014 without any authorization from the Damascus government or a UN mandate.
The aerial assaults have failed to fulfill their declared aim of countering terrorism, but destroyed much of Syria's infrastructure and left many civilian casualties.
The Manbij attack cost the US its worst combat losses in its purported fight against Daesh since 2014.
Late last year, U.S. President Donald Trump unexpectedly announced that he had ordered a complete troop withdrawal from Syria. However, the U.S. leader and other senior American officials have since sent mixed messages about the pace and scope of the pullout.