3 U.S. Soldiers Wounded in Ambush in Syria

Date: 27 May 2020 - 21:45

News ID: ۷۸۹۸۴

DAMASCUS (Dispatches) – Three U.S. troops have been wounded in an attack on their convoy by unknown militants in Syria’s eastern province of Dayr al-Zawr, state news agency SANA reported.
The targeted U.S. convoy was accompanied by the so-called Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), said SANA, adding five SDF militants were also wounded in the attack that took place near the village of Ruwaishid in the countryside of Dayr al-Zawr.
The United States controls several bases in northeastern and eastern Syria, particularly in areas controlled by the SDF.
The Syrian government has for long accused Washington of violating the Syrian sovereignty, urging the international community to pressure the United States to withdraw its troops from Syria.
In another development, terrorists from the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group attacked a settlement in the Syrian province of Idlib, Rear Admiral Oleg Zhuravlev, the head of the Russian Defense Ministry’s center for Syrian reconciliation, said on Tuesday.
He noted that no attacks by Turkey-controlled armed groups had been recorded and that Russian military police units had continued patrolling several routes in the provinces of Aleppo and Hasakah.
"At the same time, we have registered one attack on the settlement of Maaret Moukhos in the Idlib province from the positions of Jabhat al-Nusra terrorist organization”, Zhuravlev said.
On 5 March, Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, agreed on a ceasefire in Idlib, which started at midnight. The sides also agreed to create a security corridor six kilometers (3.7 miles) north and south of the M4 highway in Syria, which connects the provinces of Latakia and Aleppo.