DAMASCUS: Several Syrian and American soldiers were wounded when shots were fired at a joint military delegation in Palmyra in central Syria on Saturday, state media said.
The incident is the first of its kind to be reported since Islamist-lead forces overthrew longtime Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad in December last year, and rekindled the country’s ties with the United States.
“Several members of the American forces” were wounded in the shooting alongside “two members of the Syrian security forces”, state news agency SANA said, quoting a security source.