President Donald Trump attended a ceremony for three US personnel killed in Syria by a suspected Islamic State attacker as they were returned to American soil in flag-draped caskets.
Trump, accompanied by US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth, travelled to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware for the ‘dignified transfer’ of the bodies in the presence of their families.
Standing at the foot of an Air Force transport plane on a cold and blustery day, Trump, Hegseth and others saluted as one by one the caskets were carried off by white-gloved soldiers and loaded onto a waiting vehicle.
The two US Army soldiers and a civilian interpreter were killed on Saturday in the central Syrian town of Palmyra by an attacker who targeted a convoy of American and Syrian forces before being shot dead, according to the US military.
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