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The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas is engaged in a multifield negotiation to release Palestinian and Arab prisoners from Israeli occupation prisons, a top Hamas leader has disclosed. In...

When Jordanian King Abdullah II spoke with Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, on the phone earlier this month, it set a precedent that thawed a decade of ice between the...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) yesterday accused the Syrian regime and its allied militias of committing grave human rights violations including torture, extra-judicial killings and kidnappings against Syrian refugees who had voluntarily...

Jordanian authorities refused to issue permissions for events marking the Prophet Muhammed (peace be upon him)'s birthday, Anadolu reported the country's Islamic Action Front saying. "With pain, we received the reply...

Turkish-German scientist, Ugur Sahin, has been declared "Man of the Year" in the Muslim world in an annual publication by the Jordan-based Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre (RISSC), Anadolu...

Jordan announced on Sunday the signing of an agreement with Saudi Arabia to launch the Fly Aqaba airline to serve the Red Sea resort area of Aqaba, with a...

Former Israeli Prime Minister and leader of the opposition, Benjamin Netanyahu, yesterday criticised the current government's plans to supply neighbouring Jordan with additional water "without obtaining any political compensation"....

Article 6 of the Jordanian Constitution "Jordanians shall be equal before the law. There shall be no discrimination between them as regards to their rights and duties on grounds...

On Monday, Iranian Foreign Minister, Hossein Amir Abdollahian, made an "unusual" phone call to his Jordanian counterpart, Ayman Safadi, during which they discussed bilateral relations and ways to develop...

Jordan has resumed exporting vegetables to Israel after a five-month halt, Israeli Kan reported yesterday. The Jordanian Ministry of Agriculture said in a statement that the kingdom's agricultural exports...

Jordanian ministers yesterday submitted their resignation ahead of a government reshuffle which will be the fourth since Bisher Al-Khasawneh became prime minister in October 2020, local media outlets reported. The reshuffle...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has offered new financing to the Middle East and North Africa worth $16.6 billion to overcome the COVID-19 crisis, Anadolu reported yesterday. According to the report,...

Abdul Hamid Al-Qudah, a renowned scientist in the diagnosis of bacterial diseases and an expert on AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, has died. Abdul Hamid (1 January 1946...

An Israeli court in Jerusalem has revoked a previous decision of the Magistrate's Court permitting "silent prayers" for Jews in the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque, Quds News Network reported...

As the Russian occupation of Syria enters its seventh year and with the Syrian crisis no longer in the news, serious questions must be asked. Vladimir Putin's intervention on...

The Israeli-based NSO Group ended its contract with the United Arab Emirates to use its powerful Pegasus state spyware tool because Dubai's ruler was using it to hack the...

The ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al-Maktoum, ordered the hacking of the phones of his ex-wife

Settler violence against Palestinians has escalated during Israel's "hands-off" approach in the occupied West Bank, according to Haaretz. The Israeli newspaper has reported that violence by Jews against Palestinians...

Jordan today agreed to supply Lebanon with electricity via Syria, a few weeks after Egypt agreed to supply Beirut with gas. The announcement came after the electricity ministers of Jordan, Lebanon...

Syrian President, Bashar Al-Assad, and Jordanian King, Abdullah II, held a phone conversation on Sunday, their first open communication in a decade since the Syrian civil war erupted. In...

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Jordan fully reopened its main border crossing with Syria on Wednesday in a boost for the struggling economies of both countries, Reuters has reported. The move follows a push...

The Jordanian government has agreed to resume flights to the Syrian capital Damascus as of 3 October after a 10-year hiatus as a result of the Syrian civil war. Jordan's...

Jordan will fully reopen its main border crossing with Syria from Wednesday, government and industry officials said, as a high-level Syrian team arrived in Amman to discuss how to...

Jordan said today that Crown Prince Al Hussein Bin Abdullah had contracted coronavirus, Reuters reports. "His Highness Prince Hussein, who had received the vaccine against the coronavirus, showed mild symptoms and...

Dozens of Jordanians protested in the capital, Amman, yesterday calling on the government to abolish a $10 billion gas agreement signed by the state-owned National Electric Power Company (NEPCO)...

Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid travelled to Amman last month for a secret meeting with Jordan's King Abdullah II, Israeli Channel 12 TV revealed on Saturday. The two men...

Jordan's foreign minister has said that the Syrian crisis can only be resolved through exclusively US-Russian dialogue, alongside a collective Arab role. "Russia has a major role in any...

Jordan's King Abdullah and Saudi Arabia's King Salman gave their backing for a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital in pre-recorded speeches at the UN General Assembly...

Sixty-eight per cent of Jordanians do not trust the recently-formed Royal Committee to Modernise the Political System and its expected outcomes, an official study revealed yesterday. The poll, carried...

Jordan's chief of staff met with the Syrian defence minister in Amman yesterday to discuss border security, Hala Akhbar has reported. The meeting between Jordan's General Yousef Huneiti and...