The US Army indicates that 2 members of the Iowa Guard were killed in the weekend attack in Syria

The two members of the Iowa National Guard were killed in an attack over the weekend that US forces blamed on the Islamic State group in Syria were identified on Monday.

The US Army called them SGT. Edgar Brian Torres-Tovar, 25, of Des Moines, and Sgt. William Nathaniel Howard, 29, of Marshalltown.

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds ordered all flags in Iowa to fly with honor to the staff, saying, “We thank them for their service and mourn deeply.”

A Pentagon spokesman, Sean Parnell, said a civilian working as a US translator was also killed. Three other guard members were injured in the attack, the Iowa National Guard said Monday, with two of them in stable and good condition.

The attack was the biggest test of trade between the United States and Syria since the ouster of autocratic leader Bashar Al-Assad last year, coming as the US military increased its cooperation with Syrian security forces. Hundreds of US troops are being sent to eastern Syria as part of the war against the coalition.

This Saturday in the Syrian desert in a situation in Syria near the historic city of Palmyra also injured members of the country’s security forces and killed a suspect. The attacker joined forces inside Syria and joined the security guard two months ago and was recently repatriated on suspicion of possible links to Isis, a Syrian official said.

The man attacked a meeting between Syrian security officials who were having lunch and opened fire after arguing with Syrian security forces, a ministry spokesman said.

Al-Baba admitted that the incident was a ‘major violation’ but said that in the Assad year, “there have been far more successes than failures” with security measures.

The army said on Monday that the incident was still under investigation, but military officials blamed the attack on a member of Isis.

US President Donald Trump said at the weekend that “there will be a very large retaliation for the attack and that Ahmed Al-Sharaa” insists that Syria was fighting alongside the army.

Trump welcomed Al-Sharaa, who led the lightning strike that threatened the Assad regime, to the White House in a historic meeting.

Torres-Tovar and Howard were dedicated soldiers and “precious members” of the country’s family, Stephen Osborn, who wants to soften, said in a statement.

“The focus now is to provide unwavering support to their families at this unimaginable time and to ensure that the legacy of these two heroes is not forgotten.”

Howard is remembered as starting from the inside, the one that comes out

Howard wanted to be a soldier since he was a little boy, according to Jeffrey Bunn, Howard’s adopted father and chief of the Meskwaki Nation police department northeast of Des Moines. Howard “loved what he did and would be the first one out,” Bunn wrote Saturday in a post on the police Facebook page.

Howard was also a loving husband and “a man of incredible faith,” Bunn said, adding that Howard’s younger brother, a Staff Sergeant in the Iowa READ, may return to Iowa.

Howard was inspired by his grandfather’s service and wanted to serve for 20 years, according to a post on a Facebook page dedicated to sharing the news of the unit. He had already worked for more than 11 years.

Howard “wants his warden to know that he’s always there,” he said, “whether he’s helping or just listening.”