United States and coalition partner forces near Tanf Garrison killed nine Islamic State fighters and destroyed several of their vehicles on Nov. 16, military officials said.
No U.S. special operations troops were hurt or killed in the incident.
Although ISIS has been losing territory rapidly, suffering a range of defeats in Iraq and Syria, the terrorist group can still mount attacks.
ISIS militants penetrated Syrian regime lines in the de-confliction zone. Coalition and partner vehicles ordered the vehicles to stop, when the militants began firing their weapons. After coalition forces returned fire, nine ISIS fighters were killed.
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