LONDON: The Arab world has strongly condemned a deadly terrorist attack that targeted a combined patrol of US troops and Syrian security forces near the historic city of Palmyra. The tragedy also highlights the significance and possibilities of growing collaboration between Damascus and Washington.
A joint Syrian-US patrol was attacked on Saturday while on a field tour at Palmyra, in the central Homs province of Syria. Between 2015 and 2017, Daesh seized the city, which is home to UNESCO-listed ruins. Severe civilian repression, public executions, and systematic cultural damage characterized the two periods of occupation.
Syria’s Foreign Minister Asaad Al-Shaibani denounced the attack as a “terrorist” assault on a joint counterterrorism patrol in a post on the social media site X. He wished the injured a speedy recovery and offered his sympathies to the families of the victims as well as the American people and administration.
The attacker, according to Syria’s Interior Ministry on Sunday, was a security force member who had been targeted for termination due to extreme beliefs. A ministry official, Noureddine Al-Baba, stated that the person was scheduled to be fired for having “extremist Islamist ideas” after serving for more than ten months and being assigned to multiple cities.
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