Jordan: Army on ‘full alert’ for Daesh presence on borders

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Jordan: Army on ‘full alert’ for Daesh presence on borders

Jordan is closely monitoring the movements of terrorist groups on the northern and northeastern borders to deter any threat, with some 50 per cent of the armed forces deployed to these areas, according to Colonel Majdi Harasis of the Military Intelligence Directorate of the Jordan Armed Forces-Arab Army (JAF).

He made his remarks during a discussion on preventing and combating terrorism in the MENA region and Europe, organized by Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in Amman on Monday.

Jordan is "effectively and actively" targeting Daesh in areas close to the Jordanian border, Harasis said,  after the group re-deployed to the Syrian Badia and to areas near the Jordanian border following operations against them in Raqqa and Mosul.

The Daesh-affiliated group “Khalid Ibn Al Walid Army” is around two kilometers away from  a "very sensitive area at the Jordanian-Syrian-Israeli triangle", he said.

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