BEIRUT—Two coalition troops were killed Thursday in Syria and five others wounded when an improvised explosive device detonated, the U.S.-led coalition announced Friday. The U.K.’s ministry of defence also confirmed in a statement that one of its soldiers embedded with U.S. forces on a “counter-Daesh operation” was killed. We’ll be coming out of Syria, like, very soon,” said Trump in a speech in Ohio on Thursday, using an acronym for Islamic State. Earlier this month, Turkish special forces working alongside Syrian rebel groups captured Afrin, a Kurdish-majority enclave near Aleppo city. “(U.S. troops) reportedly won’t get out of Manbij,” Erdogan said, according to Turkish state news operator Anadolu.

Source: thestar March 30, 2018 17:15 UTC