Jordanian security forces have arrested two football fans for hate speech after they chanted “Saddam Hussein” at the opposing Kuwaiti side during a World Cup qualifier in Amman last...

Palestinian-Jordanian prisoner, Heba Al-Labadi, entered her 21st day of hunger strike on Sunday, to protest against her detention since 20 August, as well as the abuses committed against her...

In a presidential decree, the Assad regime in Syria has decided to exempt Jordanian trucks from transit fees, Jordanian MP Tariq Khouri, who is close to Syria, told mass...

'This will not stop me, I will keep on doing films about Palestine, whether I see it or not. I will keep talking about it'

On August 20, Heba Ahmed al-Labadi fell into the dark hole of the Israeli legal system, joining 413 Palestinian prisoners who are currently held in so-called administrative detention. On...

A Palestinian-Jordanian who has been on hunger strike for 15 days in Israeli prisons has revealed the details of her horrific interrogation and torture, the PLO Prisoners’ Committee reported...

The Jordanian government has urged Israel to release two of its citizens detained while entering the occupied West Bank, reported Haaretz. According to the paper, Jordan’s Foreign Ministry “delivered...

Jordan’s government said on Sunday it has reached a pay deal with the teachers union to end a one-month strike, the country’s longest public sector strike that disrupted schooling...

A spokesman for the Jordanian Teachers Association (JTA), Noureddine Nadim, said yesterday that the union complied with the administrative court’s decision and decided to suspend the strike starting next...

Russia managed to launch an intra-Syrian political process with its Astana format partners and with the support of the UN, President Vladimir Putin said Thursday, Reuters reports. Putin spoke...

Teachers in Jordan have continued their strike despite strict orders from the Ministry of Education to go back to work, Al-Quds Al-Arabi reported on Tuesday. The ministry threatened to...

The UN envoy to Yemen, Martin Griffiths, arrived in Sanaa on Tuesday to consult with leaders of the Ansar Allah movement (Houthis) on ways to achieve a truce with...

Palestinian prisoner, Heba Al-Labadi is on the eighth day of hunger strike after being sentenced to administrative detention for five months without charge or trial. Abducted by Israeli soldiers...

Jordan’s Ministry of Education yesterday threatened to replace teachers who did not return to work and end their strike action, Al-Quds Al-Arabi reported. The ministry asked school principals to...

Jordan’s cabinet on Saturday offered striking teachers pay hikes in a bid to end a damaging nationwide strike that has piled pressure on the debt-burdened country undergoing tough IMF-backed...

The Head of the Political Bureau of the Palestinian Hamas Movement, Ismail Haniyeh, praised the speech of King Abdullah II of Jordan at the 74th session of the UN...

Jordan’s Interior Minister and former Intelligence Chief, Lieutenant Nadhir Ahmad Al-Rasheed, denied that the late King Hussein had requested Israeli air support in the events of Black September 1970....

King Abdullah II of Jordan has called the continued occupation of Palestine and the expansion of Israeli settlements a moral tragedy, saying it is his duty to protect Jerusalem...

Israeli analysts have warned of “increasingly chilly” relations with Jordan, with no official events planned to mark the 25th anniversary of the Jordan-Israel peace treaty next month. According to...

Israel’s Counter-Terrorism Bureau yesterday warned Israeli citizens against travelling to Turkey, Jordan and Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula during the October Jewish holiday season. KAN reported that the national bureau had...

The Palestinian Association for Human Rights (Witness) has revealed the names and conditions of Palestinians detained in Saudi Arabia. In a report, the rights group said that dozens of...

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh said on Monday that the Jordan Valley and northern Dead Sea are “indivisible parts” of Palestinian lands, Arab48.com has reported. Shtayyeh made his...

Jordan’s teachers’ strike yesterday entered its second week amid anticipation of a meeting with Prime Minister Omar Razzaz to discuss the repercussions of the crisis. Deputy Head of the...

Syria is willing to restore relations with neighbouring Jordan to the level they were before the uprising began in 2011, the country’s Acting Chargé d’Affaires in Jordan, Shafiq Dayoub,...

Streets in Jordan have been blocked as teachers launched a strike demanding the government follow through with a 2014 agreement to increase their salaries. In response to the mass...

Jordanian teachers yesterday launched an open-ended work strike, calling for the government to follow through with previous agreements and increase their salaries, Quds Press reported. In a press release,...

Protesters gathered near the government headquarters in the capital of Amman, amid a heavy security presence

The Jordanian Teachers’ Association (JTA) announced yesterday that it will start a strike on Sunday in a new escalation to demand a pay increase. This came in remarks made by...

Israeli police this morning arrested 170 Druze men and religious figures at its border with Jordan, preventing them from trying to enter Syria after a months-long investigation by the...

Up to 120,000 Palestinian refugee children have returned to 169 UNRWA schools in Jordan for the start of the new academic year. The Hashemite Kingdom hosts 2.3 million registered...

The head of a UN agency supporting Palestinian refugees, which is under an investigation over suspected internal misconduct, said on Tuesday it still needed $150 million in donations to...

Water scarcity is one factor driving millions of people from their homes each year but is often not the only reason why they move, researchers told an international conference...