US bombs Assad-backed militia in Syria

Published May 18, 2017 4:49pm ET



U.S. warplanes have attacked a convoy of Syrian regime-backed fighters who violated an established deconfliction zone in southern Syria, a Pentagon official told the Washington Examiner on Thursday.

The strike took place near the al-Tanf border crossing on Syria’s southern border with Jordan and Iraq, where U.S. special forces have been training counter-Islamic State troops for many months.

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