The Jordanian Border Guards on Saturday morning (June 3rd) foiled an attack on a military post near the kingdom's northern border, the Jordanian News Agency, Petra, reported.
Three individuals riding motorcycles crossed the Syria-Jordan border at 8:30 a.m. Saturday and attempted to target a forward military post of the Border Guards near al-Rukban refugee camp in the closed military zone between the two countries, a military source said.
The guards engaged with the attackers, killed all three of them and destroyed their vehicles, while a member of the Border Guards was injured, the source said.
Last year, seven Jordanian troops were killed and 13 injured when a car bomb struck a forward military post in a no-man's-land near the Rukban crossing with Syria.
Soon after the attack, which the "Islamic State of Iraq and Syria" (ISIS) claimed, the army declared Jordan's desert regions that stretch north-east to Syria and east to Iraq "closed military zones", stranding thousands of Syrian refugees in the area.
