The Jordanian army says it killed a number of Islamic State group jihadists on Tuesday night who were trying to approach its northern border with Syria.
IS jihadists “tried to approach our border” but Jordanian troops prevented them by pounding them “with all types of weapons” and “killing a number of them,” the army statement adds, without specifying how many.
The Jordanian army said that on the Syrian side of the border, regime forces cornered the jihadists in a pocket of southern Syria around the Yarmouk Basin and neighboring villages.
The operation to secure the area continued into yesterday morning, the statement said.
The Jordanian announcement came hours after Israel said it had killed seven terrorists believed to be linked to IS in an airstrike late last night. The terrorists were believed to be trying to infiltrate Israel from the Syrian Golan Heights, the IDF said.
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