Northern Syria: More US soldiers die in attack

The US government keeps the IS for hit, however stable the situation in Syria is not. At a stop in Manbij, several people were killed - among them U.S. soldiers.

In Northern Syria have been killed in a suicide bombing several people. Among the Victims were also U.S. soldiers. They were apparently killed during a patrol in the town of Manbij. Videos that were released by local activists and news agencies, showed a Restaurant with considerable damage, and a road that was covered with debris and blood. Several cars were damaged.

The U.S. international coalition led wrote on Twitter, in an Explosion, members of the US-military killed. A number was not called. According to the Syrian Observatory for human rights killed 18 people, four of them US to be soldiers. The Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said 20 fatalities, of which five U.S. soldiers. The terrorist militia "Islamic state" claimed the deed on you tube Amak.

U.S. soldiers at the site of the attack in Manbij

The U.S. military sent a helicopter to Manbij, the soldiers are out. The town near the Turkish border, is for the army to be strategically important. Here are areas under Russian, Turkish, and Kurdish influence intersect.

Manbij self-controlled for two years by the Kurds. They had previously expelled, with the help of the U.S. military, the fighters of the IS out of the city. In addition to U.S. soldiers and French special forces are stationed in the city to the West of the Euphrates. In Manbij the location was most recently largely quiet.