Jordan strikes southern Syria after linking church attackers to 'terrorist groups'
Jordan said the strikes killed and wounded militants and destroyed several vehicles after the church shooting that left nine dead.
- 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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Suspected terrorists attack a church in Jordan - several people die. Now Jordan reacts with counterattacks to targets in Syria. ISIS was targeted. However, according to the authorities, almost half of the deaths are children.
Jordan's military air force has carried out a few raids in southern Syria, as a reprisal for responding to a mortal attack on a Greek Orthodox church in Karak where 9 people were killed. Damascus speaks of eight civilian deaths, including 3 children, in Jordanian bombings, while the monarchy claims to have killed [...] The article Jordan bombs the south of Syria after the attack on the church of Karal: "Killed 20 militiamen of the Islamic State.…
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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