The Jordanian army Thursday said it had killed a number of Daesh (ISIS) militants who had tried to approach its northern border with Syria.
The incident Tuesday came as clashes raged between Syrian regime forces and "a gang of Daesh terrorists" in the Yarmuk Basin region of southwestern Syria, an army statement said.
Daesh militants "tried to approach our border," but Jordanian troops prevented them by pounding them "with all types of weapons" and "killing a number of them," it added, without specifying how many.
The operation to secure the area continued into Wednesday, the statement said.
The Jordanian army said that on the Syrian side of the border, regime forces had cornered the militants in a pocket of southern Syria around the Yarmuk Basin and neighboring villages.
On Tuesday, Syrian media and a war monitor reported heavy clashes between regime forces and Daesh militants surrounded in a wedge of territory in southern Daraa province.
The Britain-based activist group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said nearly 100 militants from the Daesh-allied Army of Khaled Ben al-Walid were cornered in their last redoubt.
Syrian state television reported that army units were locked in fierce fighting in "the last pockets of the IS terrorist group."
The Jordanian announcement came as Israel's army said it had killed seven militants believed to have been linked to Daesh in an air strike late Wednesday.
The militants were believed to have been trying to infiltrate Israel from the Syrian Golan Heights, the Israeli army said.
The Yarmuk Basin area is near both the Jordanian border and the Israeli-held part of the Golan plateau.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said Wednesday in a message to his troops they were close to winning the country's seven-year war, telling them "victory is near.”
AFP
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