Jordanian intervention in the Syrian civil war
| Jordanian intervention in the Syrian civil war | |||||||
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| Part of the War against the Islamic State (Foreign involvement in the Syrian civil war) | |||||||
Jordan in green and Syria in orange. | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
| Jordan | Islamic State | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Abdullah II Abdullah Ensour Hani Mulki Omar Razzaz Bisher Al-Khasawneh Mashal Al-Zaben Mahmoud Freihat Yousef Huneiti Muath al-Kasasbeh Bashar Hassan † Maher Ali † Rami Youssef † Marwan Nour † |
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (Leader of IS) Abu al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurashi Abu al-Hasan al-Hashimi al-Qurashi Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi Abu Ali al-Anbari † Abu Omar al-Shishani † Abu Waheeb † | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
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Jordanian Forces:
| Up to 200,000 fighters in Iraq and Syria | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| Unknown | ||||||
The Jordanian military intervention in the Syrian civil war began on 22 September 2014, with airstrikes on Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) targets, and escalated after the murder of Muath al-Kasasbeh, a Jordanian pilot who was captured by ISIL when his F-16 Fighter Jet crashed over Syria in early 2015. Though Jordan's strikes in Syria largely tapered off after December 2015, airstrikes have continued through February 2017, and Jordan has continued to support rebel groups in Syria and host military activities of other countries.