The US military spokesman for the coalition to fight the Islamic State (ISIS) denied the Syrian regime media reports that 4 American soldiers were killed, following the explosion of an explosive device on the road between the governorates of Hasaka and Deir Ezzor in northeastern Syria.
The American Colonel Wayne Maruto said in a tweet on Twitter that the news is not true and that all the soldiers are safe, without explaining whether the US forces were actually bombed in that area.
The report of @CJTFOIR service members KIA in Syria today is false.
All @CJTFOIR service members have been accounted for.
- OIR Spokesman Col.
Wayne Marotto (@OIRSpox) November 8, 2020
Earlier on Sunday, the official Syrian News Agency (SANA) and the official Syrian TV announced, citing sources describing them as Al-Ahlia, that 4 American soldiers had been killed, after an explosive device targeted their vehicle in the countryside of the town of Markada on the road between Hasaka and Deir Ezzor.
And those sources indicated that American forces imposed a security cordon around the site of the explosion, as their planes were flying, without further details.
Despite the withdrawal of US forces from their bases in Syria, they maintained their presence in the area surrounding the oil fields in the east and northeast of the country, and strengthened their deployment there by sending hundreds of trucks with military and logistical reinforcements.
And last September, the Associated Press reported that the United States had sent additional forces, armored vehicles and radar systems to eastern Syria, in addition to increasing patrols of its fighters in the sky of their areas of deployment.