Jordan's air force chief said on Sunday his country's jet fighters had conducted 56 raids in three days of intensified bombing targeting a stronghold of Islamic State militants in northeast Syria.
Jordan launched the bombing raids against the jihadist group's positions in Syria and Iraq on Thursday in response to its brutal killing of a captured Jordanian pilot, military action that it continued on Saturday.
There was no word of any new strikes against the militants on Sunday.
"We achieved what we aimed at. We destroyed logistics centers, arms depots and targeted hideouts of their fighters," General Mansour al Jbour, head of the Jordanian air force, told a news conference.
Jordan has carried out nearly 20 percent of the total sorties conducted by the US-led coalition against Islamic State in Syria to date, al Jbour said, adding that they had been careful not to hit any civilians.
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