Damascus Rejects Jordan’s Coordination Claim After Deadly Strikes in Southern Syria

Syria has expressed its “full reservation” over Jordanian airstrikes in the south of the country and called for coordination, denying Jordan’s assertion that the operation had been conducted in consultation with Damascus.

The Jordanian military said in a statement on Monday that it had carried out strikes against what it described as “terrorist organisations” in southern Syria.

It said the operation was retaliation for the victims of an attack on a church in Jordan’s southern Karak governorate, and maintained that the strikes had been coordinated with Damascus.

The Syrian government rejected that account and reported civilian casualties in the attack on Daraa. No casualty figures were provided in the statements described.

The conflicting statements leave the two governments publicly at odds over both the coordination of the operation and Jordan’s description of its targets.