The Jordanian government admitted on Tuesday that a number of civilians had been killed in airstrikes conducted against so-called "Islamic State" militants in southern Syria on Monday night. The Jordanian air force carried out the strikes on "terrorist groups" in the region in retaliation for last week's attack on a funeral at a Greek Orthodox Church in Jordan in that killed nine people, adding the strikes killed more than 20 IS fighters. However, Syrian authorities contradicted the claim, saying the strikes in the Daraa and Sweida provinces had killed seven people including three children and a woman. Two men who were killed were reportedly elderly.
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