Five suspected "Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant" (ISIL) elements are to stand trial in Jordan on charges of planning a deadly suicide attack last year on the Syrian border, AFP reported Tuesday (March 7th).
"We have referred the file of the five accused, who are Arab nationals, to the state security court to try them in the case of the terrorist bombings of Rukban," Judge Ziad al-Edwan said, with the trial slated to open "within days".
ISIL claimed the June 21st suicide bombing that killed seven soldiers at a military post in Rukban, near a no man's land area where the frontiers of Iraq, Syria and Jordan meet.
"The security apparatus of the armed forces was able to arrest (the accused) on the Jordanian-Syrian border," Edwan said.
Amman had not previously announced any arrests in connection with the attack.
Edwan said the five accused had monitored the border, chosen the time of the attack and the route to be taken, and filmed the attack.
Soon after the attack, the army declared Jordan's desert regions that stretch northeast to Syria and east to Iraq "closed military zones", stranding thousands of refugees in no man's land.
