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The Daesh terrorist group has claimed responsibility for a car-bomb that targeted a U.S. military convoy in Syria's northwestern Al-Hasakah province on Monday.
The bomb went off as the convoy passed through a checkpoint run by the YPG/PKK terrorist group, local sources told Anadolu Agency earlier Monday.
One U.S. soldier was injured and five YPG/PKK terrorists were killed by the blast, the same sources said.
A U.S.-led coalition, established in 2015 to fight Daesh, has confirmed that no U.S. military personnel were killed in Monday's attack.
"We can confirm that a combined U.S. and Syrian partner force convoy was involved in an apparent VBIED [vehicle-borne improvised explosive device] attack today in Syria," the coalition said on its Twitter account.
"There were no U.S. casualties," it added. "We will continue to review the situation and provide updates."
In its own online statement, Daesh appeared to claim responsibility for the attack, which, it said, had targeted a joint military convoy comprised of both U.S. troops and YPG/PKK elements in Al-Hasakah's Shaddadi district.
Last week, four Americans, including two soldiers, were killed in an apparent suicide attack -- also claimed by Daesh -- in Syria's northern city of Manbij. -
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