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AFP
Beirut
A suicide bomber attacked a convoy of US troops and their allies in Syria on Monday, killing five members of a Kurdish-led force fighting the Islamic State group, a monitor said.
The assault, claimed by IS militants, came less than a week after another deadly attack on US forces in Syria, and a month after Washington announced a US troop pullout from the war-torn country.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitoring group, said five fighters from the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) were killed in the blast on a road in northeastern Hasakeh province.
“A suicide attacker driving a bomb-laden car targeted a convoy of American forces accompanied by the SDF on the Hasakeh-Shadadi road,” said the Observatory, which relies on a network of sources inside Syria.
Shadadi lies to the south of Hasakeh, capital of the eponymous province, which has been relatively spared by the war that erupted in Syria nearly eight years ago.
The coalition confirmed the attack by a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device (VBIED), but said there were no US casualties.
“A combined US and Syrian partner force convoy was involved in an apparent VBIED attack today in Syria,” coalition spokesman Sean Ryan said on Twitter.
“There were no US casualties.” Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman said the attacker had ploughed into an SDF vehicle. Footage on Kurdish media showed a plume of grey smoke rising from a road flanked by dry land.
Beirut
A suicide bomber attacked a convoy of US troops and their allies in Syria on Monday, killing five members of a Kurdish-led force fighting the Islamic State group, a monitor said.
The assault, claimed by IS militants, came less than a week after another deadly attack on US forces in Syria, and a month after Washington announced a US troop pullout from the war-torn country.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitoring group, said five fighters from the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) were killed in the blast on a road in northeastern Hasakeh province.
“A suicide attacker driving a bomb-laden car targeted a convoy of American forces accompanied by the SDF on the Hasakeh-Shadadi road,” said the Observatory, which relies on a network of sources inside Syria.
Shadadi lies to the south of Hasakeh, capital of the eponymous province, which has been relatively spared by the war that erupted in Syria nearly eight years ago.
The coalition confirmed the attack by a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device (VBIED), but said there were no US casualties.
“A combined US and Syrian partner force convoy was involved in an apparent VBIED attack today in Syria,” coalition spokesman Sean Ryan said on Twitter.
“There were no US casualties.” Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman said the attacker had ploughed into an SDF vehicle. Footage on Kurdish media showed a plume of grey smoke rising from a road flanked by dry land.
