John Bickley

He's now in the hospital in what authorities call life-threatening condition.

Authorities say they also found what appeared to be a number of improvised explosive devices in the car of the suspect who was killed.

Thankfully, they did not go off, and bomb technicians were able to dispose of them safely.

Here's Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese reacting to the attack.

For his part, President Trump told Jewish American Sunday that they are safe here and should respond to this attack, quote, by celebrating Hanukkah proudly.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was understandably outraged by the attack and did place some of the blame on Australian leaders, whom he accused of being silent over the last few years amid growing anti-Semitism there.

Now, according to a number of reports from Israel, authorities there are investigating right now to see whether these gunmen had been coordinating with Iran,

or potentially other terrorist organizations, a big part of the story there that they want to get to the bottom of.

Indeed.

Now, sadly, this wasn't the only Islamic attack this weekend.

The U.S.

also directly impacted.

Tell us what happened in Syria.

Yeah, on Saturday, a lone gunman ambushed a group of American service members engaged in counterterrorism operations in Syria.

The gunman, who the White House says was an ISIS member, killed two American service members and also their American translator.

He also wounded five others, including three more Americans.

And even more disturbing, according to numerous reports, the gunman who was thankfully killed at the scene was a, quote, ISIS infiltrator.

He was actually working as part of a government security detail that day.

Here's Trump addressing the tragedy from the White House.

And that statement was followed up by another Truth Social post in which the president vowed that, quote, there will be very serious retaliation.