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Operation Martyr Muath ( ar, عملية الشهيد معاذ) was a 3-day series of airstrikes by the
Royal Jordanian Air Force The Royal Jordanian Air Force (RJAF; ar, سلاح الجو الملكي الأردني, Silāḥ ul-Jawu al-Malakī 'al-Urdunī) is the aerial warfare branch of the Jordanian Armed Forces. History Early days Jordan gained independence in 19 ...
on Islamic State targets in response to the execution of the pilot
Muath Al-Kasasbeh Muath Safi Yousef al-Kasasbeh ( ar, معاذ صافي يوسف الكساسبة, Muʿaḏ Ṣāfī Yūsuf al-Kasāsibah  South Levantine pronunciation: ; 29 May 1988 – 3 January 2015) was a Royal Jordanian Air Force pilot who was captur ...
by burning.


Capture of Muath

Pilot Muath Al-Kasasbeh of the Royal Jordanian Air Force was captured on 24 December 2014 after his F-16 jet crashed over ISIS-held territory during a mission. The Jordanian government spent the next three months negotiating the pilot's release in exchange for some ISIS and Al-Qaeda prisoners from Jordanian prisons. On 2 February 2015, a 22-minute video was released by ISIS showed the pilot being interrogated and then burned alive in a cage. However, it is believed that the pilot was executed on 3 January and that ISIS was thus negotiating under false pretences for an entire month.


Casualties

Jordan's three-day aerial bombardment of ISIS-held territory in Syria targeted ISIS training camps, ammunition depots and oil extraction facilities, which inflicted 55 casualties among ISIS fighters, including a high-ranking official known as the "Prince of Nineveh". Jordanian state TV released footage showing fighter jets leaving Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Azraq, with the video entitled, "this is the beginning and you will get to know the Jordanians".


Aftermath

Jordanian F-16s returning from the bombing campaign made a diversion in Al-Karak, over the place where King Abdullah II and large crowds gathered to offer condolences to Muath's family. ISIS falsely claimed that Jordanian airstrikes had killed female American hostage
Kayla Mueller Kayla Jean Mueller (August 14, 1988 – February 6, 2015) was an American human rights activist and humanitarian aid worker from Prescott, Arizona. She was taken captive in August 2013 in Aleppo, Syria, after leaving a Doctors Without Borders ho ...
, a claim that was debunked by Jordanian and American government officials.


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