A bomb attack claimed by Daesh killed two US troops and two civilians working for the US military in northern Syria on Wednesday, weeks after President Donald Trump said the group had been defeated there and that he would pull out all American forces. The attack in Manbij appeared to be the deadliest on US forces in Syria since they deployed on the ground there in 2015. The town is controlled by a militia allied to US-backed Kurdish forces. The US military confirmed four Americans were killed and said three US troops were wounded in the explosion, which a Daesh-affiliated site said was the work of a suicide bomber. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said 19 people had been killed in all, including four Americans. It was unclear what impact the blast might have on Trump’s calculus after he confounded his national security team with a surprise decision last month to withdraw all 2,000 US troops from Syria, declaring Daesh had been defeated there. No experts believe Daesh has been defeated, despite the group having lost almost all of the territory it held in 2014 and 2015 after seizing parts of Syria and Iraq and declaring a “caliphate.” AFP.