Four Americans Are Killed in Islamic State Attack in Syria
- Suicide attack deadliest for U.S. forces during deployment
- Attack comes a month after Trump said U.S. troops would leave
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U.S. forces in Syria sustained their deadliest attack yet just a month after President Donald Trump claimed victory over Islamic State terrorists in the country and ordered a pullout of the American military.
The scale of the attack -- four Americans were killed and three wounded -- and Islamic State’s claim of responsibility potentially complicate Trump’s plan to leave Syria. Trump initially declared the group defeated in December, though he later qualified the claim to say Islamic State had lost territorial control of the self-proclaimed caliphate it once held.