Jordan planes strike IS after pilot murder: Official

AMMAN: Jordan said on Thursday it had launched air strikes against the Islamic State group, after vowing a harsh response to the burning alive of one of its fighter pilots.

"The Jordanian air force launched raids against positions of the Islamic State group," said a government official, who did not want to be named.

He did not disclose where the strikes took place, saying the military would release a statement on the operation later.
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Jordan has conducted regular raids against IS in Syria as part of a US-led campaign against IS, which has seized swathes of the country and of neighbouring Iraq.

The gruesome murder of airman Maaz al-Kassasbeh, who was captured by IS when his F-16 fighter plane went down in Syria in December, has boosted support in Jordan for increased military action against the jihadists.

A Jordanian air force fighter jet flies over the village of Ai as Jordanian King Abdullah II visits to offer his condolences to the tribe of the slain Jordanian pilot, Lt. Muath al-Kaseasbeh at their home village near Karak, Jordan. (AP Photo)

Jordanian King Abdullah II personally paid his condolences Thursday to the pilot's family in his hometown of Karak, 120 kilometres (74 miles) south of the capital.

Abdullah cut short a visit to the United States and flew back to Amman on Wednesday after the harrowing video emerged of Kassasbeh's killing.

Safi (C), the father of Jordanian pilot Maaz al-Kassasbeh, who was killed by Islamic State (IS) group militants. (AFP Photo)
"The blood of martyr Maaz al-Kassasbeh will not be in vain and the response of Jordan and its army after what happened to our dear son will be severe," he said afterwards.

On Wednesday, Jordan executed two Iraqis on death row — female would-be suicide bomber Sajida al-Rishawi and al-Qaida operative Ziad al-Karboli — in response to the killing of the 26-year-old pilot.

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