Rabat - The terrorist organization the Islamic State, formerly known as ISIS or ISIL, has lost 20 percent of its military capabilities since the pilots of the US-led coalition have started carrying out airstrikes on the group’s strongholds, General Mansour Al-Jabour, head of the Jordanian Royal Air Force, said in a press conference on Sunday.
Al -Jabour said that Jordanian pilots have flown 946 sorties, nearly 20 percent of the total sorties carried out by the U.S-led coalition against the so-called Islamic State in Syria to date.
The sorties have resulted in the “degrading” of nearly 20 percent of the group’s military capabilities, he said.
Al Jabour said that coalition planes have flown 5,500 sorties since the beginning of the air campaign, including 2,000 reconnaissance flights. The general said about 7,000 Islamic State group militants have been killed since the beginning of the coalition airstrikes.
Jordanian pilots have carried out intensified aerial bombardment against IS fighters following the brutal execution of a Jordanian pilot.
Jordan has launched 56 airstrikes against the Islamic State as part of a three-day offensive aimed at targeting weapons depots, training centers and military barracks after the group released a video last week showing the execution by immolation of 26-year-old pilot Moaz al-Kasasbeh.
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