Amman, Dec 25 (IANS) Jordan carried out a series of airstrikes in southern Syria’s Sweida province, targeting suspected drug smuggling networks and storage sites near the border, Syrian media and a rights monitor reported.Syrian state-run Ikhbariya TV said the raids late on Wednesday (local time) hit drug storage locations and a weapons facility used by armed smuggling gangs. It added that a former Syrian army outpost, recently repurposed for narcotics storage, was also destroyed, reports Xinhua…
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Amman, Dec 20 (IANS) The Jordanian Armed Forces (JAF) on Saturday confirmed that they had taken part in US airstrikes targetting IS targets in Syria on Friday. In a statement, the JAF said the operation was carried out in cooperation with the United States, which aimed to “prevent extremist groups from using these areas as launchpads to threaten the security of Syria’s neighbouring countries and the wider region.”On Friday, the US military struck more than 70 suspected IS-linked targets across c…