DAMASCUS: Syria’s interior ministry said on Sunday that the gunman who killed three Americans in the central Palmyra region the previous day was a member of the security forces who was set to be fired for extremism.
Two US troops and a civilian interpreter were killed in what the Syrian government described as a “terrorist attack” on Saturday, while Washington said it had been carried out by a fighter belonging the militant Islamic State group (IS).
The Syrian authorities “had decided to fire” the perpetrator from the security forces before the attack for holding “extremist Islamist ideas” and h
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