4 US soldiers killed in Syria

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A U.S. military vehicle runs past the Tal Tamr area in the countryside of Hasakah province, northeastern Syria.

Damascus, (Asian independent) Four US soldiers were killed by an explosive device in Syria’s Hasakah province, according to a state media report.

On Sunday, explosive device tore through a US military vehicle in the village of Markadeh on the Hasakah-Deir al-Zour road, Xinhua news agency quoted the report as saying.

It added that a translator was among the slain soldiers.

Following the explosion, the US forces cordoned off the area.

The slain soldiers were taken to a US base in the Shaddadi area in the Hasakah countryside, the state media report said.

It said the US forces and their allies of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) control the majority of oil fields in northeastern Syria.

The report added that thousands of truckloads of military gears reached US bases in Hasakah.