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| Isis capabilities degraded by '20 per cent' after Jordan steps up air strikes against group | Isis capabilities degraded by '20 per cent' after Jordan steps up air strikes against group |
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| Air strikes have degraded Isis’ capabilities by 20 per cent after bombing efforts against the group were recently intensified, the head of the Jordanian airforce has claimed. | Air strikes have degraded Isis’ capabilities by 20 per cent after bombing efforts against the group were recently intensified, the head of the Jordanian airforce has claimed. |
| General Mansour al-Jbour said strikes had reduced the extremist group’s military capabilities during a press conference on Sunday. | General Mansour al-Jbour said strikes had reduced the extremist group’s military capabilities during a press conference on Sunday. |
| Jordan has carried out nearly a fifth of the sorties of the US-led coalition against Isis in Syria to date, according to al-Jbour. It conducted 56 bombing raids against militants in northeast Syria within three days after the brutal killing of one of its pilots, First Lieutenant Muath al-Kaseasbeh. | Jordan has carried out nearly a fifth of the sorties of the US-led coalition against Isis in Syria to date, according to al-Jbour. It conducted 56 bombing raids against militants in northeast Syria within three days after the brutal killing of one of its pilots, First Lieutenant Muath al-Kaseasbeh. |
| A still image posted by the Islamic state Raqqa branch on jihadist forums shows a heavily damaged building in Raqa after it was allegedly targeted by a US-led coalition air strike Al-Kaseasbeh was captured by militants in December and burned alive in a cage in January. A film showing his barbaric death later emerged online. | |
| “We achieved what we were looking for: revenge for Muath," the general said. "And this is not the end. This is the beginning. | “We achieved what we were looking for: revenge for Muath," the general said. "And this is not the end. This is the beginning. |
| “We are determined to wipe them from the face of the Earth.” | “We are determined to wipe them from the face of the Earth.” |
| The main aims of the bombing would continue to be to trying to hit Isis leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, to stop the group's illicit oil trade, and to destroying their training bases, garrisons and command centres. | The main aims of the bombing would continue to be to trying to hit Isis leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, to stop the group's illicit oil trade, and to destroying their training bases, garrisons and command centres. |
| Al-Kaseasbeh’s death was so brutal that even one of Isis’ own clerics objected to it, who was then arrested for speaking out against it. | Al-Kaseasbeh’s death was so brutal that even one of Isis’ own clerics objected to it, who was then arrested for speaking out against it. |
| Additional reporting by Reuters | Additional reporting by Reuters |