U.S. forces have commenced a large-scale strike against Islamic State group infrastructure and weapons sites in Syria following an attack on U.S. and partner forces in Syria last week that killed three Americans.

President Trump said "numerous perfect strikes" had hit Islamic State terrorist targets in the West African nation of Nigeria.

The Iowa National Guard released the names of two US soldiers who were killed by an Islamic State member in Syria on December 13. In the aftermath of the attack, Syrian Foreign Minister Assad al Shaibani spoke with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on December 14 and said the Syrian government would work with the US to degrade and destroy the Islamic State (IS).

The US struck multiple targets in Syria on Friday that the US military tied to ISIS as retaliation for the recent attack that killed two American service members there, according to two US officials.

The U.S. military struck more than 70 targets at multiple locations across central Syria against Islamic State on Friday, retaliating a week after two U.S. service members and one civilian

An attack by an alleged Islamic State member in Syria has killed two U.S. service members and one American civilian.

The Department of War told Fox News Digital it is aware of reports that American troops have come under fire Saturday in the central Syrian town of Palmyra.

The president vowed “very serious retaliation” to Saturday’s ambush, in which U.S. Iowa National Guard members Sgt. Edgar Brian Torres Tover, 25, and Sgt. William Nathaniel

When an attacker killed two US service members and a civilian interpreter in Syria over the weekend, President Donald Trump vowed “very serious” retribution against those responsible and officials were quick to describe the assailant as a “lone gunman” who was a member of ISIS.