WASHINGTON — The US Army on Monday released the names of two National Guard soldiers whom the Pentagon previously said were killed in an attack by a Syrian gunman in Palmyra on Saturday.

Sgt. Brian Torres Tovar, 25, of Des Moines, and Sgt. William Nathaniel Howard, 29, of Marshalltown, both from the Iowa National Guard, “died of injuries sustained while engaging with hostile forces,” the Department of the US Army announced Monday.

Tovar and Howard were part of a larger US convoy visiting the central Syrian city of Palmyra for planned meetings with officials from Syria’s Interior Ministry, which has been increasingly coordinating........

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