Jordanian air force bombs ISIS targets for third day
Strikes carried out in response to the ISIS' killing of a captive Jordanian pilot.
By REUTERSA Royal Jordanian Air Force plane takes off from an air base to strike the Islamic state in the Syrian city of Raqqa February 5, 2015. (photo credit: REUTERS)
Jordan carried out a third straight day of air strikes on Islamic State targets on Saturday, it said, in response to the group's killing of a captive Jordanian pilot."Sorties of air force fighters today bombed bases of the Daesh terror gang," state television said in a bulletin, using a derogatory Arabic name for the militants. It gave no details.Jordan began on Thursday what it called an "earthshaking" response to the death of the pilot.
