The Pentagon said two American soldiers and a civilian interpreter were killed in Palmyra while supporting counterterrorism operations.

U.S. and allied forces came under fire during a tense operation in eastern Syria near Palmyra, leaving multiple soldiers wounded and triggering an immediate aerial response. According to local and coalition sources,

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announced on Tuesday that their elite units captured an Islamic State (ISIS) “emir” during a raid conducted in cooperation with the US-led Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS in the eastern Deir ez-Zor province.

The government faces a dilemma over what to do with civil-war-era prisons and detention camps that hold thousands of ISIS fighters and tens of thousands of their family members.