Jordan

Jordanian MP Saleh Al-Armouti yesterday warned against amending the real estate property bill to give Israelis the right to buy land in Jordan as investors, Quds Press reported. Speaking to the...

In a thought-provoking op-ed published on Friday by Saudi Arabian daily newspaper Okaz, entitled "Friday is a working day," writer Mona Al-Otaibi questions whether the Kingdom's traditional Friday-Saturday weekend...

UAE President Mohamed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan met today with King Abdullah II of Jordan to review bilateral ties and explore opportunities to further strengthen the longstanding partnership between...

On 25 July, 1994, the State of Israel and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, after a spell of negotiations, signed the Washington Declaration in which they committed to signing...

Israeli soldiers detained five out of the seven unarmed people who infiltrated the border with Jordan this morning after authorities dispatched soldiers to the scene, reported Arab48. The search for...

In July 1949, upon the complete destruction of Palestine and the expulsion of its people, David Ben Gurion addressed his officers, who were not sure that the emptiness of...

The US stressed Jordan's role as custodian of the holy sites in Jerusalem. Deputy Spokesperson for the US State Department Vedant Patel announced in a press statement received by...

Muslims, worldwide, have condemned the desecration and burning of the Quran in Denmark and Sweden, asserting that these attacks cannot be justified by freedom of expression, Anadolu Agency reports....

King Abdullah II of Jordan UK Foreign Secretary James Cleverly yesterday discussed intensifying efforts to de-escalate the situation in the occupied Palestinian territories. Abdullah and Cleverly met in the Jordanian capital, Amman, as...

Jordan, for years, has cracked down on online speech and has unplugged social media sites during bouts of civil unrest and peaceful anti-government protests

The Jordanian and Turkish governments have condemned the storming of the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound by an Israeli Minister and Jewish settlers today, in the latest such incursion in recent...

The Jordanian military shot down a drone carrying narcotics from Syria, in the third such incident in recent weeks. According to the Jordanian Army, it intercepted a drone carrying...

Egypt has warned the population not to use lifts for 20 minutes, each hour, whilst it implements power cuts so that it can conserve energy as a gruelling heat...

In the ancient Jordanian city of Umm Qais, north of the capital, Amman, basalt rocks are taking shape in the hands of Tarik Milkawi, 41, who turns them into...

Jordanian and Syrian army and intelligence chiefs met yesterday to discuss the ongoing smuggling of drugs over the Syria-Jordan border, in the first of a series of meetings to...

A sixty-five-year-old Irish activist, who set off to Palestine from Calais to raise awareness about the plight of refugees and human rights violations in the Occupied Territories, reached the...

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) announced on Tuesday plans to cut monthly cash assistance by one-third for all 119,000 Syrian refugees in Zaatari and Azraq camps in...

Former Prime Minister of Jordan Ali Abu Al-Ragheb has called for an end to the Hashemite Kingdom's "soft diplomacy" approach towards Israel in order to suppress what he called...

Dog and cat owners in Jordan have been advised to take precautions amid a reported outbreak of cystic echinococcosis, a tapeworm disease that if left untreated may lead to...

Jordan's Foreign Minister called on the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) on Thursday to reverse a decision to cut food subsidies to Syrian refugees by 1 August, Reuters...

Russia, on Tuesday, vetoed at the UN Security Council, a nine-month renewal of an aid operation delivering assistance to some 4 million people in rebel-held north-west Syria from Turkiye...

Former Deputy Prime Minister of Jordan, Mamdouh Al-Abadi, yesterday said the "two-state solution is a lie," Quds Press reported. Al-Abadi stressed that Jordan "must be present at any discussions related to the Palestinian cause because...

Three men, including the prime suspect in the death of a policeman at the end of last year, were killed in clashes with Jordan's elite anti-terrorism squad on Sunday,...

Thousands of Jordanians participated in a massive demonstration organised following Friday prayer in Amman in support of the Palestinian resistance, Quds Press reported. Many political, factional and social bodies...

The Jordanian Engineers Association is planning to start a campaign to raise funds for the reconstruction of the West Bank city of Jenin and its refugee camp, Quds Press...

Israel is advancing plans with Greece and Cyprus to build the world's longest undersea electric cable which will connect European and Gulf countries through Jordan and Egypt. The project...

By mutually appointing ambassadors, Ankara and Cairo have marked a new milestone in the normalisation of ties, said Turkish Foreign Minister, Hakan Fidan, on Tuesday, Anadolu Agency reports. "With...

Jordanian Foreign Minister, Ayman Safadi, arrived in Damascus on Monday, for the second such visit to Syria since February, Anadolu Agency reports. Safadi will meet with the head of...

Amnesty International yesterday called on the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to release dozens of Emirati citizens who have been "unjustly imprisoned" for a decade, following a mass trial that...

Jordan called on Monday for immediate action by the international community to halt the Israeli military operation in the Palestinian city of Jenin in the occupied West Bank. Six...

Israeli escalations in the occupied West Bank have cast a shadow over the occupation state's relations with the Arab world, leading to a significant drop in the number of...

Police in Israel detained three UN employees at the border with Jordan yesterday on suspicion of attempting to smuggle liquid cocaine into the country disguised as perfume. "UN workers...