The Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has summoned this Wednesday the ambassador of Jordan in Damascus, Sufian Qudá, to convey to him a formal complaint over the bombings carried out at the beginning of the week in the south of the country, attacks that have caused at least nine deaths among the civilian population, while the Jordanian authorities maintain that they managed to kill more than 20 members of the Islamic State.
According to what the official Syrian agency SANA reported, Damascus diplomacy has limited itself to confirming the summoning of the Jordanian representative, which comes a day after the Government condemned in "most forceful" terms the attacks recorded on Monday over the province of Daraa.
In that official note, the Syrian Executive underlined that "this action constituted an unacceptable violation of Syrian airspace, carried out without any prior coordination, and caused several deaths and injuries", thus denying the version of the Jordanian Armed Forces, which had stated that the operation — carried out in response to the attack against the church of Saint George, in the center of the country — was carried out "in coordination" with Damascus.
In parallel, this Wednesday local officials have gone to offer their condolences to the families of the deceased in the municipalities of Al Ashihab and Al Taf, located in the provinces of Sueida and Daraa, according to the Syrian network Al Ijbaria. In the delegation have participated the ministers of Information and Culture, Jaled Zaarur and Yasín Salé, along with the president of Parliament, Abdul Hamid al Awak, and several deputies.
For its part, the Jordanian Army has framed the bombings within an offensive called 'Jordanian Deterrence' and "in retaliation" for the attack carried out the previous Friday against a church in the locality of Hamud, which left nine dead and around thirty injured, an attack for which three men belonging to the same family were arrested.