A Macomb, Michigan, man has been identified as the interpreter who was killed in Syria over the weekend along with two guardsmen.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday barring many Syrian nationals from entering the United States, days after an Islamist militant shot and killed two U.S. service members and a civilian translator in the Middle Eastern country.

President Donald Trump joins military officials at Dover Air Force Base in Kent County, Delaware, for the solemn transfer of two U.S. soldiers killed in ISIS ambush in Syria.

The shooting happened during a mission by U.S. and Syrian forces in a historic central town near Palmyra on Saturday. President Trump and U.S. military officials attributed the attack to ISIS.

An attack by an alleged Islamic State member in Syria has killed two U.S. service members and one American civilian.

As Australia's worst mass shooting in nearly 30 years unfolded, a Sydney shopowner was captured on camera charging at one of the gunmen and disarming him. Halfway around the world in Syria, a group of men watching the footage recognised a familiar face.

President Trump is poised to sign bipartisan legislation scrapping the sanctions that were seen as a major obstacle to Syria's economic recovery.

The terrorist group has been linked to the Bondi Beach mass shooting and an attack in Syria that killed three Americans.