The Chargé D’Affaires of the Syrian Embassy in Amman, Ayman Aloush, handed over his country’s approval to participate in the conference of the Arab Inter-Parliamentary Union, to be held...

US President Donald Trump set the cat amongst the pigeons when he called on EU states to take back 800 Daesh fighters held by American and Syrian Democratic Forces...

The Syrian refugees currently staying in Jordan have no desire to return back to their home country, Jordanian Prime Minister, Osama Al-Razzaz, warned yesterday. “We are now entering a...

Jordanian members of parliament yesterday called on the government to dismiss the Israeli ambassador to Amman and to recall the Jordanian ambassador from Israel in response to Israel’s violations...

Russia’s defence ministry has opened two “humanitarian corridors” for the displaced refugees in the Syrian border camp of Al-Rukban, the chief of Russia’s National Defence Control Centre, Mikhail Mizintsev,...

Tens of thousands of Syrian refugees continue to face harsh living conditions at the Al-Rukban camp near the Syria-Jordan border despite Russian attempts to set up “humanitarian corridors” through...

Jordan yesterday lodged a protest note with the Israeli foreign ministry, slamming provocative Israeli actions against Al-Aqsa Mosque, Jordanian news agency Petra reported. Jordan called for Israel to stop...

There has been more talk recently from the Palestinians, Israelis and Jordanians about the option of a confederation as an alternative to the two-state solution in light of the...

There are “shared interests” between Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain, Jordan and Israel, the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Thursday. “The US is building...

A Jordanian lawmaker praised for her role in abolishing a law that let rapists off the hook if they married their victims has set tackling child marriage as her...

Talks on a UN-sponsored prisoner swap in Yemen’s war could drag on for months if the Saudi-backed government denies the existence of thousands of Houthi fighters in captivity, the...

The Pentagon claims that Daesh can re-group in Syria within months

Representatives of the Yemeni government and Houthi opposition group began a new round of UN-brokered talks to finalise the prisoners swap deal in the Jordanian capital, Amman, yesterday. AFP...

Iraq and Jordan on Saturday agreed a deal over the trade of oil and goods at a meeting between their two prime ministers on the Iraqi-Jordanian border, reported Reuters....

Jordan on Saturday agreed to host a second round of peace talks between the Yemeni government and Houthi rebels, according to the country’s foreign ministry. In a statement, ministry...

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The last 7 days in the Middle East

The Moroccan government’s spokesperson, Mustapha Al-Khalfi, yesterday denied recent reports, claiming that the North African country was expecting a visit by the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In a...

Jordan has reached a new agreement on free trade with Iraq, the country’s Deputy Prime Minister, Rajai Muasher, said yesterday. Speaking during a joint press conference with Iraqi Finance...

The head of Israel’s Shin Bet internal security service, Nadav Argaman, has issued a warning about Chinese influence in the Zionist state. He is not the first Israeli official...

The 2017 annual statistical report issued by the Jordanian Department of Statistics revealed that one out of five Jordanian women who married in 2017 had already been married before,...

A technical delegation from Jordan’s Civil Aviation Regulatory Commission (CARC) yesterday arrived in the Syrian capital of Damascus to study plans to reopen the Syrian airspace to the Jordanian flights,...

The Jordanian foreign ministry yesterday condemned Israel’s actions near Al-Buraq (the Western Wall), stressing it is an inalienable part of Al-Aqsa Mosque. Israel had reportedly set up steel and...

Yemen’s warring parties hope to deliver final lists of prisoners to the United Nations after talks in Amman on Thursday under an exchange agreement, a government delegate said, Reuters reports....

A spokesman for the Jordanian Foreign Ministry said yesterday that his country has agreed to a UN request to host a meeting between the Yemeni government and Houthi rebels...

The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) said yesterday that as many as 15 displaced Syrian children, most of them infants, have died from extreme cold and lack...

The energy ministers of seven countries launched the Eastern Mediterranean Gas Forum on Monday in an effort to benefit from the energy-rich region, particularly natural gas resources. The forum’s...

Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi met with Jordanian King Abdullah II on Monday in Baghdad with whom he discussed the prospect of “joining forces” with a view to stopping...

The UK has lifted restrictions on carry-on electronic devices on planes coming from certain airports in Muslim-majority countries in the Middle East and North Africa. The UK Department for...

The US troop withdrawal from Syria will not be scuppered despite Turkish threats against Washington’s Kurdish allies there, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday, promising to ensure...

The two men in the Trump administration in charge of setting America’s global priorities are crisscrossing the Middle East this week, dividing up an already deeply divided region, trying...

The Jordanian parliament on Tuesday approved a draft bill exempting the children of Jordanian women married to foreigners, as well as the Gaza Strip’s citizens living in Jordan, from...