President Donald Trump said the U.S. will retaliate after three U.S. military personnel — two Army soldiers and a civilian interpreter — were killed by a suspected Islamic State attacker. The U.S. military said the attacker targeted a convoy of American and Syrian forces.

President Donald Trump says “there will be very serious retaliation” after two U.S. service members and one American civilian were killed in an attack in Syria that the United States blames on the Islamic State group.

The Iowa National Guard released the names of two US soldiers killed in a December 13 attack in Syria. “The deceased soldiers are Sgt. William Nathaniel Howard, 29 of Marshalltown, Iowa and Sgt. Edgar Brian Torres-Tovar, 25 of Des Moines, Iowa. Both were members of the 1st Squadron, 113th Cavalry Regiment,” the Guard noted.

The killing of three Americans during what was said to be a counterterrorism operation in central Syria served as a reminder that U.S. troops are still operating in the country.

The two Iowa National Guard members killed in a weekend attack in Syria were identified Monday and remembered as dedicated soldiers.

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Two soldiers and a civilian interpreter were killed while supporting counterterror operations, the Pentagon said. They are the first U.S. casualties in Syria since the fall of the dictator Bashar al-Assad.

The attack on U.S. troops in Syria is the first to inflict casualties since the fall of President Bashar Assad a year ago.

The attacker was among 5,000 members who recently joined a new division in the internal security forces. President Donald Trump speaks with reporters as he and first lady Melania Trump depart on Marine One from the South Lawn of the White House,