Syria: IS suicide bombing against the US coalition

This attack weakens the position of Donald Trump who announced last December the withdrawal of US forces from Syria.

Sixteen people, including four Americans, were killed Wednesday in a suicide bombing claimed by the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group in Manbij, Syria. Among them, "two soldiers, a civilian employee of the Ministry of Defense and an employee of a subcontractor of the Pentagon," said the Central Command of the US Army (Centcom) in a statement, stating that three other military were wounded in this attack, the deadliest against the US forces of the international coalition since 2014 in this country.

Twelve other people, seven civilians and five fighters of an Arab-Kurdish force who accompanied the American patrol, also died in this attack near a restaurant in the center of the city, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (OSDH), which has an extensive network of sources in the country at war. A video filmed by a local Kurdish agency on the scene of the drama shows a blackened facade and completely disemboweled, the floor covered with rubble with blood on the wall. After the attack, tanks carrying the American flag were visible in the streets, while armed soldiers stood guard, said an AFP employee.

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