Jordan strikes southern Syria after linking church attackers to 'terrorist groups'
Jordan said the strikes killed and wounded members of militant groups it linked to the church attack, while security forces arrested three suspects.
- 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 attacked targets of the terrorist group Islamic State (IS) in Syria last night. This was announced by the Jordanian Minister of Communications. Twenty IS militants were reportedly killed in the attack. According to Syria, there were civilian casualties, and Jordan did not inform them of the attack in advance.
The Jordanian military announced the operation on Monday, October 26, 2026, under the name “Jordanian Deterrence – Hamoud”.
Syria on Tuesday condemned Jordan's strikes in the south of the country on Monday that Amman said targeted the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group in response to last week's bloody attack on a church.
After the attack in Jordan on a church with nine dead, the Air Force has reacted with attacks on targets in neighbouring Syria. Several members of the IS terror militia have been killed.
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Jordan acknowledges Syrian civilian deaths in strikes it says killed IS extremists
AL-TUFF, Syria (AP) — Jordan on Tuesday said its airstrikes over Syria killed some 20 militants of the extremist Islamic State group, but also acknowledged that civilians had been killed in the attacks.
Jordan said Tuesday it had killed more than 20 jihadists in strikes in Syria the day before, responding to a deadly church attack.
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