Turkey has handed over the chairmanship of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) to Jordan, the Foreign Ministry announced Tuesday,...

Newspaper readers in Jordan were surprised on Tuesday morning with almost complete disregard for the death of former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi. As monitored by Arabi21, the front pages...

Jordan’s Pop Agency yesterday announced the cancellation of US rapper Bhad Bhabie’s concert in Amman after protests from the Jordanian branch of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement....

Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) Pierre Krahenbuhl said the UN agency is expected to end the year with a $211 million...

The Advisory Commission of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) met in Jordan yesterday to discuss support for the organisation. In a...

The National Committee Against Smoking and Tobacco held its first meeting on Monday under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Dr Omar Razzaz, the committee’s chairman, and in the presence...

Officials and dignitaries from around the have responded to the death of Egypt’s only democratically elected president, Mohammed Morsi who died in court on Monday. Morsi, 67, a top...

There are calls to boycott the show for violating 'Jordanian morals"

Israel will attend the US-led Mideast conference in Bahrain slated for June 25-26, officials announced Sunday, Anadolu reports. “Israel will be at the Bahrain conference,” Foreign Minister Israel Katz...

The Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Thursday, called on Arab states and all other parties that received an invitation to attend the US-led “Peace for Prosperity”...

Two weeks ago, the architect of the US peace plan for the Middle East — the “deal of the century” — landed in Jordan. Jared Kushner was in the...

Moroccan Prime Minister Saadeddine Othmani said he did not know of his country’s participation in the Bahrain Conference which is aimed at promoting the US peace plan known as...

US Republican members of Congress pushed back on Wednesday against President Donald Trump’s plan to sell $8 billion in weapons to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, saying...

Until now, the economic workshop on the deal of the century in Bahrain is still expected to be held on June 25 and 26. This economic workshop was called...

Jordan National Petroleum Company (NPC) announced the discovery of a new well in the Risha gas field, east of the kingdom, raising the number of the field’s producing wells...

Recent reports found that drug-related crimes in Jordan increased by 287 per cent over the past five years, stating that the authorities recorded 18,400 such crimes in 2018, Assabeel...

Reuters has reported that Egypt, Jordan and Morocco have informed the Trump administration they will attend a US-led conference in Bahrain this month on proposals for boosting the Palestinian...

Some 900 Syrian refugees have returned to their homes from Jordan and Lebanon over the past hours, Russia’s defence ministry announced yesterday. “Over the past day, in total 884...

The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) in Jordan has received only 20 per cent of its financial requirements for 2019, according to its operational update for May. The UNHCR reported...

Jordan’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Ayman Safadi has condemned Israeli plans to build new settlement units in occupied Jerusalem. In a series of tweets published on Tuesday, Safadi denounced...

Republican and Democratic US senators said on Wednesday they would introduce 22 separate joint resolutions seeking to block President Donald Trump’s plan to sidestep congressional review and complete more...

Jordan’s unemployment rate reached 19 per cent in the first quarter of 2019, according to a Department of Statistics report released yesterday. This marked an increase of 0.6 per...

Bahrain is gearing up to host the economic version of the so-called Deal of the Century. A two-day conference, co-hosted by the United States, is scheduled to be held...

Jordan has called for an immediate halt to Israeli “provocations” at East Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, warning of a new cycle of violence in the Middle East region, Anadolu...

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas yesterday received senior Bahraini official Amman Sheikh Abdullah Bin Ahmed Al Khalifa in Jordan. Al Khalifa conveyed the Bahraini king’s greetings and pride in...

Jordan’s King Abdullah II yesterday reaffirmed his support for the Palestinian cause, “stress the need to step up all efforts to achieve comprehensive and lasting peace on the basis...

US President Donald Trump’s senior advisor and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, visited Morocco on Tuesday and Jordan yesterday to rally support for the “deal of the century” peace plan between...

The Jordanian government’s position is still unclear regarding in the so-called “Economic Conference” hosted by the Bahraini capital Manama at the invitation of the United States of America. The...

The Deal of the Century has inspired much discussion about Washington’s latest political gambit in the Middle East. Largely excluded from the debate, however, is the emotional toll involving...

The Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan yesterday rejected an expected visit by US presidential advisor, Jared Kushner, to the kingdom. The group said in a statement that the visit scheduled...

US President Donald Trump, declaring a national emergency because of tensions with Iran, swept aside objections from Congress on Friday to complete the sale of over $8 billion worth...

Neither the Israeli attack on Gaza nor Trump’s decision to recognise the Israeli occupation’s annexation of the Golan Heights, the Russian and Iranian assault on Idlib and the use...