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Syria president sends condolences to Trump after attack on US troops
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This handout photograph released by the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) on November 10, 2025, shows US President Donald Trump (L) shaking hands with Syria's President Ahmed al-Sharaa at the White House in Washington DC. (Handout / SANA / AFP)
Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa sends his condolences to his American counterpart Donald Trump, a day after a deadly attack on US troops in central Syria.
In a statement, the Syrian presidency says Sharaa sent “a cable of condolences to US President Donald Trump regarding the killing of American soldiers in Homs province,” expressing his country’s “solidarity with the victims’ families.”
The attack, which Washington blamed on the Islamic State group, killed two US troops and a civilian interpreter in Palmyra, Homs province.
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