New Delhi, Dec. 13 -- Several American service members were injured after a convoy was ambushed in Syria on Saturday (December 13), a senior US official confirmed to Fox News. The official said there were multiple injuries, some of them serious, but did not provide further details on the condition of the troops.

Earlier, two local Syrian officials told Reuters that a joint convoy of US and Syrian forces engaged in operations against the Islamic State terror group was targeted while on patrol in the central town of Palmyra. The circumstances of the ambush and the group responsible were not immediately clear.

The Department of War told Fox News Digital that it was "aware of reports" related to the incident but added that it had "nothing a...