Child marriage among Syrian refugees has more than doubled in the last four years according to new data released by Jordan’s court system. War, poverty and economic instability have...

Israel’s new ambassador to Jordan is taking up office ending nine months of political unrest between the two countries. Israel’s Foreign Ministry announced today that its new ambassador to...

King Abdullah of Jordan stressed on Sunday that Jerusalem is the “key to peace” and pointed out that the Palestinians and Muslims have an eternal right to the holy...

Jarah al-Hawamdeh, a Palestinian refugee in Jordan who lost one of his legs to cancer, has vowed to reach the summit of Mount Everest in hopes of saving his...

The former Prime Minister of Jordan, Taher Al-Masri, has called for the Palestinian Authority to be dissolved and for its leader, Mahmoud Abbas, to resign. Al-Masri explained during a...

Libyan military commander Khalifa Haftar has reportedly been hospitalized in France after suffering a stroke, according to French media reports Wednesday. Le Monde citing its sources reported that Haftar...

Jordan has once again refused to extradite the daughter of former president of Iraq Raghad Hussein or any other members of the late leader’s family, an Iraqi official has...

The head of the political bureau of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, has sent a message to King Abdullah II of Jordan about the upcoming Arab summit in...

Twenty-five Jordanian MPs have signed a petition rejecting the return of the Israeli ambassador to Amman, Head of Palestine Committee in the Jordanian Parliament Yahya Al-Saud told Anadolu yesterday....

Iraqi women are ramping up pressure to abolish a law that lets rapists off the hook if they marry their victims, after Tunisia, Jordan and Lebanon scrapped similar articles...

Jordan has accepted Israel’s choice of its new ambassador yesterday, indicating a repair of relations after an almost year-long standoff between the two states. The new Israeli ambassador to...

Israel, Jordan, Egypt and the Palestinian Authority are holding “secret” talks with the intention of preventing the Palestinian-planned “Great March of Return” later this week, Israel Hayom revealed yesterday....

Qatar and Jordan signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) yesterday to boost transport rights between the two countries. The MoU was signed during a two-day meeting between the Qatar...

The Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) passed a resolution in support of Palestinian rights yesterday, at its 138th session in Geneva. According to reports, the IPU voted in favour of a...

The Arab League has said that the Israeli Knesset supports racist laws to Judaize and steal Palestinian land and promote apartheid. In a report issued Sunday, the league said...

A Palestinian official on Sunday denied Israeli reports that President Mahmoud Abbas’s health condition was deteriorating. “Abbas is an excellent health condition,” Mahmoud Ismail, a member of the Palestine...

Children are more vulnerable now than ever due to conflicts and natural disasters with millions without homes or families, leaving them easy prey for human traffickers, Indian Nobel laureate...

The United States and the Jordanian government yesterday opened a new regional counter-terrorism training centre south of the capital, Amman. The Jordan Gendarmerie Training Academy is the second of...

The National Counter-Terrorism Committee of the Qatari Ministry of the Interior has added 19 individuals and eight entities to its terrorist list. The Daesh affiliate Wilayat Sinai is amongst...

Jordan has asked the Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas not to monopolise decisions related to the Palestinian cause as Jordan is also a key defender of Palestinian rights,...

Former Jordanian soldier Ahmed Daqamseh has received a death threat from an unknown person using an Israeli phone number, Anadolu reported on Sunday. Daqamseh was released from prison in...

Egyptian diplomatic sources revealed on Friday that the regime of President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi is making extensive efforts to persuade Jordan to join the “deal of the century” discussions...

The appointment of Mike Pompeo as the new US Secretary of State by Donald Trump will not signal a change in Washington’s Middle East policy. It doesn’t mean that...

The Jordan Supreme Criminal Court has sentenced a 50-year-old Syrian father to 25 years imprisonment for sexually assaulting his five daughters since childhood, a judicial source said. The source...

The White House on Tuesday hosted 19 nations, including Israel and Arab Gulf states, to address the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, but the Palestinian Authority boycotted the meeting, angered...

Syrian jets struck rebel-held towns in the country’s south on Monday, the first aerial attacks on the area since the United States and Russia reached an agreement making it...

Jordanian farmers are planning to file a lawsuit against the government over the new ten per cent agriculture tax that was introduced in January. A spokesman for farmers protesting...

Saudi Arabia and Israel have been coordinating on a range of regional issues, including Iran and the Palestinian cause, Israel Hayom newspaper revealed yesterday. The paper quoted an unnamed...

Palestinian sources said that the Chief of the Political Bureau of Hamas movement, Ismail Haniyeh, outlined a five pronged strategy to counter the US-led ‘deal of the century’, in...

Regimes in the Middle East are “sowing the seeds of a second Arab Spring” a report by the Financial Times (FT) warned. Simmering discontent over high unemployment rates, political...

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The head of the World People’s Assembly in Support of Gaza, Dr. Essam Yousef, warned against continued reduction of the services of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency...