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I know its Debka.....so find a source debunking it.

I can't directly debunk it, but I can sanity-check it.

Both sides have suffered casualties.

Possible but unlikely. If we we sent them an ultimatium telling them we were coming, we'd have gone in with overwhelming force.

US soldiers crossed over after Damascus was given an ultimatum Thursday, Nov. 24, to hand over a group of senior commanders belonging to Abu Musab al Zarqawi’s al Qaeda force. According to US intelligence, the group had fled to Syria to escape an American attack in Mosul.

So, they fled from an attack in Mosul to a point near a Syrian border guard unit, which we were able to track, yet unable to action? (That's several hours on the road, the most direct one being a straight line past U.S. Army camps in Tall Afar and Sinjar) Then, we gave Syria an ultimatum and attacked them the same day? That doesn't really sound like us. It doesn't even sound like the Syrians. Their border troops are corrupt, but they're not suicidal. Turning a blind eye to passing terrorists is one thing; defending them from a U.S. assault force is quite another.

I can't make sense of the timeline as it's written. The details don't add up.

Syrian border guards opened fire on the American force.

They have been known to do that, against smaller units, and when they thought they could get away with it. It's not worked out very well for them. I doubt any of them would be eager to try it again, especially against a large assault force.