Syrian Democratic Forces fighters shooting at a drone they said belonged to ISIS, on the bank of the Euphrates river, west of Raqqa, Syria, on Saturday. Thomson Reuters
Business Insider: ISIS fighters got inside the wire during a hellish firefight with US Special Ops in Syria
US forces in southern Syria came under attack by Islamic State militants around midnight local time on Saturday, joining with local partner forces to repel the assault in an hours-long fight that required multiple airstrikes and left three US-backed Syrian fighters dead.
US special-operations advisers were on the ground near the al-Tanf border crossing when a force of 20 to 30 fighters with the Islamic State, the terrorist group also known as ISIS or ISIL, attacked in what a US Central Command spokesman called a "complex and coordinated" attempt to take the base from the coalition.
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