Weapons production facility discovered along Syria-Jordan border

As concerns over transfer of weapons to various terrorist groups from Jordan to Syria grows, Jordanian security forces have discovered a number of “weapons production factories (workshops)” along the common border between Jordan and Syria.

According to IRIB World Service report, Jordanian officials announced on Saturday that following confiscation of several workshops or factories producing weapons and ammunitions in the Jordanian province of Northern Arbad, along the border with Syria, eight individuals have been arrested.
Meanwhile, according to a report, a terrorist group affiliated to the self-styled Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) which were aiming to carry out a terrorist attack in Jordan, was busted and its members arrested along the Iraq-Jordan border.
Also, Jordanian security forces are currently on a state of high alert, ready to thwart any terrorist operations in the Western Iraqi province of al-Anbar, which borders Jordan.