The U.S. military's Central Command said 10 service members were
evacuated to higher-level care facilities outside the region.
Central Command, which oversees U.S. troops in the Middle East,
said no enemy fire was reported but added that the cause of the
incident was under investigation.
Officials at U.S. Central Command did not immediately respond to
requests for further information.
The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, which control swathes
of northeast Syria, referred questions to the U.S.-led coalition
under which American troops are deployed in the zone.
The autonomous Kurdish-led administration which governs the area
and the central Syrian government in Damascus did not
immediately respond to requests for comment.
There are about 900 U.S. personnel deployed to Syria, most of
them in the east, as part of a mission fighting the remnants of
Islamic State. American troops there have come under repeated
attacks in recent years by Iran-backed militia.
In March, 25 U.S. troops were wounded in strikes and
counter-strikes in Syria, which also killed one U.S. contractor
and injured another.
U.S. forces first deployed into Syria during the Obama
administration's campaign against Islamic State, partnering with
a Kurdish-led group called the Syrian Democratic Forces.
While Islamic State is now a shadow of the group that ruled over
a third of Syria and Iraq in a caliphate declared in 2014,
hundreds of fighters are still camped in desolate areas where
neither the U.S.-led coalition nor the Syrian army, with support
from Russia and Iranian-backed militias, exert full control.
Thousands of other Islamic State fighters are in detention
facilities guarded by Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces,
America's key ally in the country.
U.S. officials say that Islamic State could still regenerate
into a major threat.
The threats from Iran-backed militia to U.S. forces are a
reminder of the complex geopolitics of Syria, where Syrian
President Bashar al-Assad counts on support from Iran and Russia
and sees American troops as occupiers.
(Reporting by Phil Stewart in Washington, Kanjyik Ghosh in
Bengaluru and Orhan Qereman in Qamishli; Editing by Kim Coghill
and Gerry Doyle)
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