Turkey's Erdogan says 20 killed, including five US soldiers, in Syria's Manbij blast
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said 20 people were killed in the bomb attack in northern Syria on Wednesday, including five US troops.
A US official had earlier told Reuters four US troops had been killed and three wounded in the blast, which an Islamic State-affiliated site said was the work of a suicide bomber. Others said only two had been killed.
"The information I have is news pointing toward that there are five US soldiers and 20 died in total," Erdogan said in a news conference with the Croatian president in Ankara.
The attack appears to be the deadliest on US forces in Syria since they deployed on the ground there in 2015.
Erdogan said he did not believe the attack in the Syrian town of Manbij would impact US President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from Syria - "because I saw honourable Trump's determination on this point," he said.
