🗞️ Story file #998
Jordan conducts airstrikes in Syria in response to church attack
Oct 26, 10 PM ET to Oct 28, 6 AM ET
- 9outlets carried it
- 🫏4 · 2 · 3🐘left · center · right
- 1.3 dayson the front pages
- 9front pages at once, at its peak
- 67 sof TV captions
- 13people retold it online
👣 How this story traveled: from the front pages that broke it, out through TV, radio and the shows, into what people retold and what fact-checkers examined, and on into the saga it is part of. Everything here is matched to the story by our tools, so a link can be wrong; the trackers' pages say how each is made.
- Oct 26, 10 PM ETfirst on a front page: AP
- Oct 27, 5 AM ETfirst on TV: CNN
- Oct 27, 8 AM ETretold online by 13 people
- Oct 27, 8 PM ETpeak: on 9 front pages
📰 Spread
the front pages that ran it, hour by hour
📌 linked by aggregators: Google News
💬 quoted: “terrorist groups” “militant hideouts” “terrorists”
✏️ 4 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
- AP (2 wordings): “Jordan says it attacked militants in Syria tied to church assault. Syria says civilians killed” → “Jordan and Syria form a joint probe after Jordanian strikes targeting IS kill civilians in Syria”
- BBC (2 wordings): “Jordan says 'terrorists' killed in Syria in retaliatory strike over church attack” → “Jordan carries out deadly strike in Syria in retaliation for church attack”
- Reuters (2 wordings): “Jordan strikes southern Syria after linking church attackers to 'terrorist groups'” → “Jordan says its air force struck 'militant hideouts' in Syria after church attack”
- The Guardian (2 wordings): “Jordan attacks militants in Syria in retaliation for last week’s church attack” → “Jordan attacks militants in Syria in retaliation for church attack”
Every outlet's first headline (9), left to right by AllSides rating
The Guardian
Jordan attacks militants in Syria in retaliation for last week’s church attack Oct 26, 7 PM ET
AP
Jordan says it attacked militants in Syria tied to church assault. Syria says civilians killed Oct 26, 10 PM ET
NBC News
Jordan attacks militants in Syria tied to last week’s church attack, state media says Oct 26, 6 PM ET
The Washington Post
Syria says five killed after Jordan retaliates for church attack with airstrikes Oct 26, 7 PM ET
BBC
Jordan says 'terrorists' killed in Syria in retaliatory strike over church attack Oct 26, 11 PM ET
Reuters
Jordan strikes southern Syria after linking church attackers to 'terrorist groups' Oct 26, 6 PM ET
Breitbart
Jordan Bombs Islamic State Bases in Syria After Church Attack Oct 27, 8 PM ET
IJR
Jordanian Strikes in Syria Draw Civilian Casualty Claims Oct 26, 10 PM ET
The Western Journal
Jordanian Military Goes After Targets in Syria in Response to Terrorists Killing Christians Oct 27, 4 PM ET
📡 Broadcast
TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it
📺 On TV
- For More Strikes Against Iran CNN, 28 s
- JORDAN CHURCH ATTACK TOOK PLACE DURING FUNERAL Fox News, 18 s
- Syria reopens border with Jordan after deadly strikes BBC News, 12 s
- JORDAN CHURCH ATTACK: AT LEAST 9 DEAD, 34 INJURED Fox News, 9 s
🧶 Retelling
what people online made of it
🧶 Retold online
- Jordan carried out retaliatory air strikes in southern Syria against terrorist organizations linked to a deadly church attack in Karak. Oct 27: told by 13 people
On Folklore: the latest in full, with their motifs and who is telling them.
🗣️ names in it: Jordan Syria Jordanian Air Force Church Militants
🔎 Checking
what the fact-checkers looked into
🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.
🧵 Persistence
the running story it belongs to
🌱 A story of its own so far: no saga yet.