ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Jordan’s armed forces said Sunday that they carried out aerial strikes along the kingdom’s northern border in Syria, targeting sites used by drug and arms smugglers.
“The Jordanian Armed Forces carried out a Jordanian deterrence operation targeting a number of sites belonging to arms and drug traffickers on the northern border of the Kingdom,” the Jordanian military said in a statement, adding that “the operation aims to prevent drugs and weapons from reaching Jordanian territory.”
Jordan has carried out similar strikes in recent years, targeting drug trafficking networks operating along its border with Syria.
Meanwhile, Syrian state television cited local sources as saying that airstrikes on Saturday evening, “likely carried out by Jordanian warplanes,” targeted a headquarters used by “rebel gangs” in the village of Shahba in the southern Druze-majority province of Suwayda.