Jordan vows retaliation against IS militants

Jordan’s armed forces have promised that air strikes launched against Islamic State (IS) targets in Iraq and Syria are “just the beginning” of the country’s retaliation for the killing of a captured Jordanian pilot
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HOSTAGE TIMELINE

Dec 24, 2014: Jordanian pilot Lt. Muath al-Kasasbeh captured byIS after his plane crashes in Syria

Jan 20, 2015: IS threatens to killtwo Japanese hostages unless Japanpays $200m ransom within 72 hours

Jan 24: IS releases video claiming it has killed Japanese hostage Haruna Yukawa. Group calls forrelease of Sajida al-Rishawi – Iraqi militant sentenced to death in Jordan

Jan 28: Jordan offers to release Rishawi in exchange for Kasasbeh

Jan 31: IS video shows body ofJapanese hostage Kenji Goto

Feb 3: Video appears toshow Kasasbeh burnt alive incage. Jordanian media suggestshe was killed weeks earlier

Feb 4: Jordan executes Rishawi and second prisoner

Clockwise from top left: Lt. Muath al-Kasasbeh, Kenji Goto, Haruna Yukawa, Sajida al-Rishawi

Jordanian F-16
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IS control / support

TURKEY

Feb 5, Raqqa 20 Jordanian F-16s hit IS weapons and training camps

SYRIA

Damascus

Amman

JORDAN

Trebil: Large number of Jordanian troops reportedly moving closer to Iraqi border crossing

Kurdish control

Feb 4, Mosul Jordanian strikes kill 55 militants, including top IS commander

Baghdad

IRAQ

200km 120 miles
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Sources: ISW, wire agencies

Pictures: Associated Press, Facebook

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