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What is happening between Syria and Jordan?

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Jordan announced the implementation of air strikes in southern Syria targeting terrorist organizations, while the Syrian government reported the killing of eight civilians, including children and women, in the Daraa countryside as a result of these raids.

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The Syrian-Jordanian border witnesses recurring security tensions related to the fight against armed organizations and drug smuggling.

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Jordanian Minister of Government Communications, Muhammad al-Momani, said that the air strikes on southern Syria resulted in “major losses among the organization’s ranks, estimated at more than 20 members,” and the destruction of a huge weapons depot, while the Syrian government announced that “civilian victims” were killed in Jordanian air strikes carried out Monday on southern Syria, after the Jordanian army announced that the raids targeted “terrorist organizations.”

Syria announced that the death toll from air strikes carried out by the Jordanian Air Force on sites in the countryside of Daraa Governorate, southern Syria, had risen to eight people on Monday, including three children and a woman, according to what the official Syrian News Agency (SANA) reported, citing the Director of Health in Daraa, Khaled Al-Omyan.