Bill O'Reilly here. You are listening to the O'Reilly update. Coming up next, the news with Mike Slater.

Thank you, Bill. Merry Christmas. It is Monday, December 15th, 2025. Here's this happening today in America. Ambush in Syria.

Ivy League shooting, Sydney terrorist attack, and trying to get a spider.

It's all coming up, then Bill's going to be here with your message of the day.

First, two U.S. soldiers and one civilian, U.S. interpreter, were killed in Syria on Saturday

after they were ambushed by a likely ISIS attacker.

Three other service members were injured during this attack as well.

These are the first combat deaths since President Trump returned to the Oval Office.

Our president said, ISIS attack against the U.S. and Syria in a very dangerous part of Syria

that is not fully controlled by them.

The new president of Syria, who used to be a member of al-Qaeda, was recently at the White House.

So this administration has placed a level of trust in him thinking that he's the guy to help modernize the nation.

Our president said that this president of Syria is extremely angry and disturbed by this attack.

There will be very serious retaliation. Two students were killed, nine injured at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.

Hundreds, 400, to be specific, police officers, swarm the streets in and around Brown,

shining flashlights and depart cars, searching for this murder who opened fire in a campus building.

All of the victims were students of Brown University.

There was another mass shooting that's a terrorist attack at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia. This is at a Jewish

celebration. Death toll is at 16 so far. The premiere of this area said this was an attack designed to

target Sydney's Jewish community on the first day

of Hanukkah. The attack so far that we know was carried out by a father and son. The father, who was

50 years old, was killed. The 24-year-old was in custody. Their names were Navid Akram and Sashid Akram.

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