Jordan conducts 56 aerial raids against Islamic State

Reuters Updated - December 07, 2021 at 01:42 AM.

Jordan's air force chief said on Sunday his country's jet fighters had conducted 56 raids in three days of intensified bombing targeting a stronghold of Islamic State militants in northeast Syria.

"We achieved what we aimed at. We destroyed logistics centres, arms depos and targeted hideouts of their fighters," General Mansour al Jbour, head of the Jordanian Air Force, told a news conference.

Published on February 8, 2015 13:19