CNN: Initial reports: 1 US service member killed in Syria
A US service member was killed in an improvised explosive device attack in the Manbij, Syria, area on Thursday, a US official with knowledge of the initial reports from the battlefield tells CNN.
Donald Trump said yesterday that American troops would be leaving Syria “very soon.” Meanwhile, a spokesperson at the Pentagon seemed to contradict Trump. From CNN–“Trump’s remarks on pulling out of Syria were made just hours after Chief Pentagon spokesperson Dana White told reporters that ‘important work remains to guarantee the lasting defeat of these violent extremists in the country.'”