This will be seized upon as evidence that we should keep our troops in Syria and fight on until the Islamic State is completely eradicated. But there will arise another jihad group after it. Shall we keep our troops there forever? There are other, more effective ways to deal with this threat. We need to combat the ideology that fuels it, which we have made no attempt to do, and formulate ways to contain the threat so that jihadis cannot travel from Syria and other Muslim countries to the U.S., while enforcing existing laws in the U.S. against Muslims who plot jihad or practice Sharia provisions that violate existing American laws.
“US service members killed in ISIS-claimed attack in Syria,” by Zachary Cohen, Veronica Stracqualursi and Kevin Liptak, CNN, January 16, 2019:
Washington (CNN)ISIS has claimed responsibility for a deadly explosion that killed US service members in the Syrian city of Manbij on Wednesday.
US service members were killed in the attack, according to a tweet from the spokesperson for the US-led coalition Operation Inherent Resolve.
“U.S. service members were killed during an explosion while conducting a routine patrol in Syria today. We are still gathering information and will share additional details at a later time,” the tweet said.
The coalition has not said how many service members were killed. Prior to Wednesday’s attack, only two US service members had been killed in action in Syria since the start of the campaign in 2014.
There were several reported casualties in the city a militia controlling the city and a UK-based monitoring group said.
The ISIS-affiliated Amaq agency said the attack in the northern city of Manbij was carried out by a suicide bomber with an explosive vest.
“An explosion in Manbij’s busy market street, initial reports of casualties,” spokesman of the Manbij military council Shervan Darwish wrote on Twitter.
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least eight people were killed….