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Syria arrests five suspects over shooting of US, Syrian troops in Palmyra
Five suspects linked to the December 13 attack on a U.S.-Syrian joint patrol were arrested amid concerns over infiltration in Syria’s security forces, officials said.
- On Saturday, a gunman ambushed a U.S.-Syrian joint patrol near Palmyra, killing three U.S. personnel and wounding others, while Syrian forces killed the attacker at the scene.
- Weeks after Syria joined the U.S.-led counter-ISIS coalition, Syria's Interior Ministry flagged the attacker on 10 December as potentially extremist and unofficial reports identified him as a former rebel.
- Conflicting identifications of the attacker accompany warnings that U.S. Central Command described a `lone ISIS gunman` while Syrian officials said he belonged to Syrian security services, and analysts highlight insider risks from uneven vetting in reconstituted Syrian security institutions.
- The incident marked a historic toll for U.S. forces as the first fatal attack since Assad's fall one year ago and the deadliest since the January 2019 Manbij bombing, with President Trump mourning losses and vowing `very serious retaliation` while President Ahmed al-Sharaa condemned the attack.
- The incident risks eroding confidence in joint U.S.-Syrian operations, prompting reviews of vetting and cooperation, and accelerating talks on scaling back U.S. troop presence in Syria and prioritizing the Syrian Democratic Forces in the north east.
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Syria's government said it arrested five people on Sunday following the attack that killed three Americans and wounded several others, but it has offered no clarity about how the gunman was able to approach what should have been a secure meeting.
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Damascus. Syrian authorities arrested five suspects suspected of having links to Saturday’s shooting of U.S. and Syrian soldiers in the city of Palmira, in the center of the country, the Ministry of the Interior reported yesterday.
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- 36% of the sources are Center, 36% of the sources lean Right
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