Jordan strikes southern Syria after linking church attackers to 'terrorist groups'
Jordan said the strikes killed and wounded members of militant groups and destroyed vehicles after authorities linked the church attack suspects to Syria-based cells.
- On Monday, the Jordanian air force launched strikes against militant hideouts in southern Syria, retaliating for Friday's attack on a Greek Orthodox Church in Karak that killed nine people.
- The operation, named 'Jordanian Deterrence- Hamoud,' targeted hideouts belonging to what Jordan described as terrorist groups linked to the church attack in the village of Hamoud.
- Following a dawn shootout in Karak, authorities arrested three men identified as brothers Hazzah Zaidan Mohammad and Mishal Zaidan Mohammad, and brother-in-law Ahmad Sami Hussein, all Jordanian.
- King Abdullah II vowed to respond with 'an iron fist' against extremism as Jordan declared three days of national mourning for the victims of the attack.
- Interior Minister Mazen Al-Faraya warned that extremist thinking must be resolved to prevent future incidents, stating 'if this way of thinking is not resolved, we will see incidents like this again.
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Jordan says it attacked militants in Syria tied to church assault. Syria says civilians killed
AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Jordan carried out airstrikes against armed groups in Syria in retaliation for Friday’s attack on a Greek Orthodox Church in the southern Jordanian city of Karak that killed nine people, the Jordanian air force said in…
Jordan has carried out attacks on targets in Syria in response to an attack on a church. On Friday, nine people were killed and dozens more wounded when gunmen opened fire during a funeral in the city of Karak. Last night, Jordanian fighter jets fired on multiple locations in southern Syria. Jordan describes it as a retaliatory action targeting terror targets, in which several terrorists were reportedly wounded. It has not been disclosed what t…
Jordan strikes targets in Syria after deadly church attack
Jordan said on Monday its air force struck what it described as militant hideouts in southern Syria after determining that the suspects behind last week’s deadly church attack in the kingdom were linked to “terrorist groups” operating there. The armed forces said the operation was conducted in coordination with Damascus. Syria’s government gave a contradictory account, saying it had launched an investigation into the Jordanian attacks, and stre…
Five people were reportedly killed in Jordanian airstrikes in the Daraa province of southern Syria.
Jordan claimed to have killed or injured "many members" of terrorist organizations linked, according to the army, to the perpetrators of the attack which killed nine people on Friday in a Greek Orthodox church.
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