A deadly attack on U.S. troops in Syria is renewing questions about the American mission there and whether the remaining ISIS threat requires a continued U.S. presence, former National Security Council chief of staff Fred Fleitz said on Newsmax Saturday.
“It looks like this was an ambush against U.S. soldiers in the region,” Fleitz told “Saturday Agenda.” “It shows that there’s still a significant threat from ISIS. It has not been wiped out. It still has a presence in Syria.”
Earlier Saturday, two U.S. service members and one American civilian were killed and three other people were wounded in an ambush by a lone member of the Islamic State group in central Syria, according to the U.S. military’s Central Command.
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