Add Syria as an interest to stay up to date on the latest Syria news, video, and analysis from ABC News. "We can confirm a combined U.S. and Syrian partner force convoy was involved" in the suicide bomb attack, he said. Monday's bombing came days after a suicide attack killed 19 people, including two U.S. service members and two American civilians, in the northern Syrian town of Manbij. The Kurdish Hawar news agency, based in northern Syria, said Monday's blast targeted a Syrian Kurdish checkpoint as a coalition convoy was passing near Shaddadeh. The fate of the Syrian town, controlled by U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish fighters whom Turkey considers terrorists, has been a source of tension between Ankara and Washington.

Source: ABC News January 21, 2019 09:54 UTC