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Jordan's King Abdullah II has decided to allow Israel to use its airspace to monitor the situation in Syria and attack the country's chemical weapons facilities, French newspaper Le...
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At a time when Syrian President Bashar al-Al-Assad warned his southern neighbour, Jordan, about the repercussions of allowing "terrorists" to infiltrate Syria, he has also expressed his hope that...
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On Friday, the Islamists in Jordan "firmly" rejected the presence of any foreign forces in the Kingdom. Meanwhile, American forces are heading to Amman to potentially intervene and secure...
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On Friday, the Islamists in Jordan "firmly" rejected the presence of any foreign forces in the Kingdom. Meanwhile, American forces are heading to Amman to potentially intervene and secure...
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas was understandably eager to swiftly and privately sign the famous Jerusalem agreement, over a month ago, which gave the Jordanian monarch religious authority over the...
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A senior Turkish official has revealed that there are three scenarios on the table before the United States and its allies for the departure of Syrian President, Bashar al-Assad....
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"The number of the Syrian refugees in Jordan will make up 40 per cent of the total Jordanian population by the middle of the next year," Jordanian Foreign Minister...
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A senior Jordanian government official has denied that Jordan has closed its borders to Syrian refugees over the past few days, and stressed that the border remained open to...
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King Abdullah of Jordan said on Sunday that there will be no confederation between his country and Palestine until and unless an independent Palestinian state is established. Such a...
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Jordan's King Abdullah II has expressed his fears that demographic changes in the kingdom could see him being toppled from the throne in the next year or so. This...
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Zaki Bani Rsheid, deputy leader of the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood, accused the political regime in Jordan of "using events in Syria and Egypt to restrict reform and the fight...
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Qatar's Ambassador to Jordan, Zayed Bin Saeed Al-Khiyarein, has denied claims that his country has evacuated its nationals from the country because of the crisis in Syria. Al-Khiyarein told...
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Amnesty International has urged the countries neighbouring Syria, and particularly Jordan, to keep their borders open to all those fleeing the conflict. In a new report published on Thursday,...
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Chief of moral guidance department in the Jordanian army Colonel Odeh Shdefat affirmed on Friday that Syrian refugees need extra assistance during the current bad weather. Shdefat said that...
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Republican Senator Lindsey Graham has expressed his concern that the Jordanian regime is threatened by the ongoing Syria conflict, pointing out that King Abdullah is moderate and America's ally...
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January 24, 2014
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Oraib Al-Rantawi
In a comprehensive strategic sense, Jordan has a number of interests that need to be taken into account as Syria engages in an open civil-sectarian war; first of which...
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January 24, 2014
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Sophie Cousins
Hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees have fled the crisis in their war-ravaged homeland, leaving behind family, friends and their livelihoods. Escaping with little more than the clothes on...
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The official Jordanian position on what is happening in Syria remains unclear. After nearly two years of revolution in Syria, Jordan has tried to distance itself as much as...