dijlahpoint - The US Embassy in the Jordanian capital, Amman, announced raising the level of security precautions and measures around its facilities and a number of vital sites, following the armed attack that targeted a church in the Karak Governorate in the south of the Kingdom.

The Jordanian authorities reaffirmed their commitment to pursuing the elements involved in the incident and bringing them to justice, amid a broad wave of official and popular condemnations of the terrorist escalation threatening the country's stability and security.