Families of victims killed in Jordanian strike deny links to church attack
Jordanian strikes on Syria in retaliation for last week’s church attack killed at least seven people, including a family of five. Amman said it targeted ‘terrorist hideouts’, but relatives of the victims deny any link to the attack. Al Jazeera’s Obaida Hitto reports from Deraa.
Jordanian armed forces carried out strikes on "militant hideouts" in Syria that it said were linked to a deadly church attack on the kingdom last week. Syria gave a different account.
The attack on a village in Syria killed five people, including women and children, Syrian health officials said.
Jordanian authorities have not named the individuals or any group involved in the 'terrorist incident'.
Three men have been arrested in Jordan in connection with an attack on a Greek Orthodox church last week. The arrests took place following a dawn shootout with security forces during which the suspects were wounded.
Syria denies prior coordination with Jordan after deadly air strikes hit two provinces, killing at least seven people.
Jordanian security forces have arrested three armed men suspected of a shooting attack at a church last week that killed nine Christians and injured 34 other people, officials say. No group has yet claimed it was behind Friday’s attack by gunmen on a funeral at St George’s Greek Orthodox Church in the village of Hmoud, which is in Karak governorate.