Jordanian Air Force Conducts 56 Aerial Raids On ISIS In Three Days

A bomb with Koranic verses is pictured on a Royal Jordanian Air Force plane at an air base before it's launch to strike the Islamic state in the Syrian city of Raqqa

Jordan’s air force chief said on Sunday that his country’s jet fighters had conducted 56 raids under three days of intensified bombing targeting a stronghold of Islamic State militants in northeast Syria. Reuters is following the development:

“We achieved what we aimed at. We destroyed logistics centers, arms depos and targeted hideouts of their fighters,” General Mansour al Jbour, head of the Jordanian airforce, told a news conference.

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