{"id":3349,"date":"2025-12-13T17:52:45","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T17:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=3349"},"modified":"2025-12-13T17:52:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T17:52:45","slug":"two-us-soldiers-and-interpreter-killed-by-islamic-state-gunman-in-syria-us-military-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=3349","title":{"rendered":"Two US soldiers and interpreter killed by Islamic State gunman in Syria, US military says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Two US soldiers and a US civilian interpreter have been killed in Syria in an ambush by a lone Islamic State gunman, the US military has said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Three other service members were injured in the attack, during which the gunman was &#8220;engaged and killed&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The identities of those killed are being withheld for 24 hours until their next of kin have been informed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth, said: &#8220;Let it be known, if you target Americans  &#8211; anywhere in the world you will spend the rest of your brief, anxious life knowing the United States will hunt you, find you, and ruthlessly kill you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The ambush occurred in Palmyra, located in the centre of the country, according to Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#soldiers #interpreter #killed #Islamic #State #gunman #Syria #military<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two US soldiers and a US civil&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[242],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3349"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}