Jordan carries out airstrikes in southern Syria in response to the attack on a church in Kerak

The strikes and stated targets

Jordan carried out airstrikes in southern Syria, describing them as a response ( The Jordanian Armed Forces said the targets were shelters of armed groupsresponsible for that attack, and that the strikes were conducted in coordination with Syria. According to the military,

Casualty figures and Damascus's reaction

The Syrian side cites different circumstances and different casualties. Damascus denies any coordination with Amman and announced the start of an investigation; the government expressed condolences to the families of those affected by the Jordanian strikes. The Health Directorate of Daraa province reported that among the dead were three children, three men and one woman — at least seven people in total. Syria's border authority closed the Nasib crossing on the border with Jordan, one of the main land crossing points between the two countries.

The key contradiction

The central disagreement between the parties is the question of coordination: the Jordanian military explicitly states that it acted in concert with Syria, while Damascus denies this and is investigating what happened. This means that, at this point, it is impossible to independently establish whether the strike was coordinated — the available information is limited to statements by the two governments published by The National. It also remains unknown who exactly the victims in Daraa were and how the Syrian investigation aligns with the Jordanian account of striking militant shelters.