Opposition fighters in the southern Syrian province of Daraa have launched a renewed offensive against regime forces and loyalist militias, capturing checkpoints, a tank and allegedly a crossing on...

Jordan's Saleh Elsharabaty has won the kingdom its second Olympic medal in history after becoming the taekwondo silver medallist in Tokyo yesterday. Elsharabaty was beaten by his "brother" Russian...

The Jordanian General Intelligence Department thwarted a plot by four Daesh militants to attack Israeli soldiers near the Jordanian-Israeli border in the Ghor Al-Safi area in February, Al-Rai newspaper reported yesterday...

Jordan's King Abdullah II said yesterday that his country was attacked by Iranian-made drones and missiles last year. "Unfortunately, Jordan was attacked by drones that have come out, that...

King Abdullah II has confirmed meeting Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Defence Minister Benny Gantz, saying that the meeting with the officials was "very encouraging." In an interview...

Jordan will start vaccinating children aged 12 years and older against COVID-19 from Sunday, Reuters reported the state news agency as saying on Saturday. Children can be given the...

Jordan and the US on Friday discussed ways to develop their strategic partnership, particularly in the fields of defence and security. This came during King Abdullah II's meeting with...

US President Joe Biden hosted Jordan's King Abdullah at the White House on Monday in a meeting that spanned a range of issues, including the coronavirus pandemic and the...

Israel's security depends on good ties with Jordan, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said yesterday, stressing that his predecessor and head of the opposition destroyed relations between the two countries, the...

Jordan's State Security Court today sentenced the two main accused in the failed April coup plot to 15 years in prison with hard labour. Sharif Hassan Bin Zaid, a relative of...

US lawyer Michael Sullivan has revealed that the former top aide of Jordanian King Abdullah II and head of his Royal Court Bassem Awadallah was tortured in prison, international...

The social media platform Facebook has deleted dozens of misleading pages, accounts and groups in three Arab countries. In a statement released on Friday, Facebook revealed closing 35 pages,...

Jordan's King Abdullah II yesterday received Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett at his residence in the country's capital Amman to discuss regional developments. An official source told Israel's Walla...

Israel will this year double its supply of water to Jordan, Reuters reported Israeli officials saying today after a meeting between the countries' foreign ministers, adding that Amman's exports to Palestinians...

The lengthy-term of office of Benjamin Netanyahu was marked by strained relations with Jordan. The new Israeli government is now seeking to restore relations with the Hashemite Kingdom, which...

Following the Friday khutba (religious sermon), during which the Endowment Ministry asked preachers to call for obeying the "thief ruler", Jordanians took to social media and called for ousting...

A Jordanian military court yesterday rejected a defence request to have Prince Hamzah testify in a case against a former royal confidant who is accused of destabilising the monarchy,...

Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi arrived in Baghdad on Sunday, becoming the first Egyptian head of state to travel to Iraq since former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait...

Jordan's State Security Court yesterday started hearings into the "sedition" case in which a former minister and member of the royal family are facing charges of incitement, Petra news agency reported....

The unemployment rate in Jordan has increased to 25 per cent in the first quarter of this year, compared to 22.7 per cent at the end of 2020. During...

The United States is withdrawing its Patriot anti-missile defence batteries from four Middle Eastern states as it continues to reduce its military presence in the region, according to a...

Queen Noor, wife of late Jordanian King Hussein, has accused authorities of carrying out a "disinformation" campaign aimed at defaming her son Prince Hamzah Bin Al-Hussein. Commenting on a...

Jordanian writer Jalal Barjas has won the 2021 International Prize for Arabic Fiction, administered by the Booker Prize Foundation, for his novel Notebooks of the Bookseller. The prize is...

Prince Hamzah Bin Hussein is likely to be called as a witness in the case known in the media as the "Sedition Case" against former Chief of the Jordanian...

A written statement by the former Chief of Jordan's Royal Court, Basim Awadallah, has claimed that Prince Hamzah Bin Hussein was critical of his brother, King Abdullah II, the...

Israeli occupation forces have launched a military exercise around Tayaseer, a village near the West Bank city of Tubas in the northern Jordan Valley, Wafa news agency has reported....

New details have emerged about the alleged plot to overthrow Jordan's King Abdullah, indicating that former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu played a starring role along with senior officials...

Jordan's military court will start the trial next week of a former royal court chief and a minor royal on charges of agitating to destabilise the monarchy, state media...

Jordan and Hamas may be on the verge of reconciliation in the ongoing confrontation with the occupation state of Israel, Anadolu has reported. This was evident during the latest...

The recently Israeli military offensive against the Palestinians in Gaza prompted a response that shocked the occupation state and many people around the world. Not only were the resistance...

Abu Jaber, who hails from a Palestinian family but does not hold a Palestinian identity card, was the oldest Jordanian prisoner in Israeli prisons.

Jordanian truck drivers staged a protest in Amman yesterday against a Saudi ban on their entry to the kingdom after a decision to ban older vehicles from entering Saudi...