Foreign intervention in behalf of Syrian rebels U.S.-led intervention against ISIL Operation Martyr Muath (Arabic: عملية الشهيد معاذ) was a 3-day series of airstrikes by the Royal Jordanian Air Force on Islamic State targets in response to the execution of the pilot Muath Al-Kasasbeh by burning him alive.

[1] Pilot Muath al-Kasasbeh of the Royal Jordanian Air Force was captured on 24 December 2014 after his F-16 jet crashed over ISIS-held territory during a mission.

On 2 February 2015, a 22-minute video was released by ISIS showed the pilot being interrogated and then burned alive in a cage.

[2] Jordan's three-day aerial bombardment of ISIS-held territory in Syria targeted ISIS training camps, ammunition depots and oil extraction facilities, which inflicted 56 casualties among ISIS fighters, including a high-ranking official known as the "Prince of Nineveh".

[citation needed] Jordanian F-16s returning from the bombing campaign made a diversion in Al-Karak, over the place where King Abdullah II and large crowds gathered to offer condolences to Muath's family.