AMMAN, Jordan — Jordan’s state security court convicted four Syrians on Monday of helping Islamic State militants carry out a 2016 car bomb attack that led to the closure of the Syrian-Jordanian border. The cross-border suicide attack, launched in June 2016 from near the Rukban camp for displaced Syrians on the Syrian-Jordanian frontier, killed seven Jordanian border guards. In response, Jordan sealed the border, barring the entry of virtually all Syrians who were fleeing from fighting and were amassing on the border. The June 2016 border closure was followed by arrest sweeps and expulsions of Syrians in response to a December 2016 shooting attack at a Crusader-era castle in Jordan that killed nine Jordanians and a Canadian tourist. —-The story has been corrected to show that nine Jordanians, not 11, were killed in a December 2016 shooting attack on a Crusader-era castle in Jordan.

Source: National Post December 04, 2017 10:30 UTC