Islamic State extremists claimed
that an American woman held hostage by the group has been killed in a Jordanian
airstrike in northern Syria.
Government of Jordan dismissed the
statement as "criminal propaganda" and the US said it had not seen
any evidence to corroborate the report.
The woman was
identified as Kayla Jean Mueller, an American who went to Syria to do aid work,
but there was no independent verification of the militants' claim. The
statement appeared on a militant website commonly used by the group and was
also distributed by Islamic State-affiliated Twitter users.
Before striking Jordan says: The burning alive of a Jordanian
pilot by the Islamic State group is a "turning point" in the
kingdom's fight against the jihadists, a minister said.
Air strikes
carried out so far by Jordan's air force were "the beginning of an ongoing
process to eliminate" IS, Interior Minister Hussein Majali said, quoted by
government newspaper Al-Rai.
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