The US secretary of war Pete Hegseth issued a forceful warning in a post on X on Saturday following a deadly ambush in central Syria that left two US soldiers and a civilian interpreter dead and three others wounded. The attack, which US military officials have attributed to a lone Islamic State gunman, occurred near Palmyra during ongoing counter-terrorism operations. Trump pledges retaliation US President Donald Trump said on Saturday that the US would respond with "very serious retaliation" following the attack on US troops, an assault Washington has attributed to the Islamic State group. In a post on Truth Social, Trump described the incident as an ISIS attack carried out in a highly volatile area of Syria that remains beyond full government control. "This was an IS

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