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   From: burfordTjustice@tues.uk   
      
   US Special Forces Obliterate ISIS Fighters Trying To Assault Base   
      
      
   U.S. special forces obliterated an entire Islamic State attack team   
   assaulting a base in southern Syria Saturday, military officials said.   
      
   “The enemy got crushed,” a U.S. military official told NBC News.   
      
   ISIS fighters launched an assault on the al-Tanf military base in southern   
   Syria, according to the two officials who spoke to NBC News. Approximately   
   20-30 ISIS fighters, some with suicide vests, were following behind a vehicle   
   that was carrying an    
   improvised explosive device.   
      
   American forces are stationed at the base, which is used to train Syrian   
   rebels. Other American troops on a nearby patrol responded after hearing about   
   the attack to provide assistance. U.S. and coalition forces killed the ISIS   
   fighters through direct    
   fire and airstrikes, leaving zero survivors. No Americans were killed in the   
   fight.   
      
   The ISIS attack on the base near the Syrian border with Jordan comes days   
   after two American warships in the eastern Mediterranean fired 59 Tomahawk   
   missiles at the al-Shayrat air base in response to a Syrian chemical weapons   
   attack in Idlib.   
      
   A U.S. defense official insisted Thursday evening that the strike on the   
   Syrian military base was a “one-off” event.   
      
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