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Trump will go to Delaware for the dignified transfer of the 2 National Guard members killed in Syria
President Trump honors two Iowa National Guard members killed in Syria; three others injured, with two in stable condition, officials said.
- On Wednesday, President Donald Trump is traveling to Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, for a dignified transfer honoring two Iowa National Guard members killed in a Syrian desert attack.
- Sgt. Edgar Brian Torres-Tovar, 25, of Des Moines, and Sgt. William Nathaniel Howard, 29, of Marshalltown, were killed Saturday in a Syrian desert attack, while three other Iowa National Guard members were injured.
- At Dover, transfer cases draped with the American flag are carried from arriving military aircraft to an awaiting vehicle and then to the Dover Air Force Base mortuary facility, honoring U.S. service members killed in action.
- Maj. Gen. Stephen Osborn said they `represented the best of Iowa`, and families are mourning the fallen; Jeffrey Bunn called Sgt. William Nathaniel Howard a loving husband escorted home by his brother.
- The attack comes as President Donald Trump has courted interim Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, whom he welcomed to Washington last month, testing rapprochement amid hundreds of U.S. troops deployed in eastern Syria.
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Trump will attend dignified transfer of the 2 National Guard members killed in Syria
The two guardsmen killed in the attack on Saturday were Sgt. Edgar Brian Torres-Tovar, 25, of Des Moines, and Sgt. William Nathaniel Howard, 29, of Marshalltown, according to the U.S. Army.
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Trump will go to Delaware for the dignified transfer of the 2 National Guard members killed in Syria
President Donald Trump will go to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware on Wednesday for a dignified transfer for the two Iowa National Guard members killed in an attack in the Syrian desert.
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