Recent News Headlines : Jordan
WORLDWIDE CHAOS AND FURY AS TRUMP'S BAN ON MIGRANTS TAKES EFFECT
It is home as much as Damascus, he said of New York City... READ MORE›
TRUMP DEFENDS IMMIGRATION BAN, CALLS THE WORLD 'A HORRIBLE MESS'
Look what is happening all over Europe and, indeed, the world - a horrible mess! Trump fired off just after 8 a.m... READ MORE›
JORDAN KING TO VISIT US, 3 DAYS AFTER TRUMP'S REFUGEE BAN
Jordan belongs to a U.S.-led anti-IS coalition... READ MORE›
SYRIAN FAMILY DECRIES TRUMP'S BAN ON REFUGEES
An executive order that bans Syrian refugees from entering the US will shatter and divide families, a Syrian family has told Al Jazeera... READ MORE›
TRUMP SIGNS ''EXTREME VETTING'' EXECUTIVE ORDER BANNING SYRIA REFUGEES FROM ENTERING THE US INDEFINITELY
With a simple stroke of a pen, President Donald Trump signed an ''extreme vetting'' executive order on Friday banning Syrian refugees from entering the US indefinitely... READ MORE›
REFUGEES WISH MORE FOCUS ON SYRIA, LESS ON CLOSING US DOORS
He doesn't think Trump's opinion reflects Americans, who he said want to allow refugees in the country... READ MORE›
3 IMPORTANT FACTS ABOUT HOW THE U.S. RESETTLES SYRIAN REFUGEES
During the height of the Vietnam War, the United States took in many more refugees, around 200,000 a year... READ MORE›
NETANYAHU THINKS A 'STATE-MINUS' IS ENOUGH FOR THE PALESTINIANS
Ministers on his hard-right pressed Netanyahu to publicly proclaim the two-state solution dead... READ MORE›
DONALD TRUMP INVITES BENJAMIN NETANYAHU FOR EARLY FEBRUARY MEETING
The 1995 Jerusalem Embassy Act calls on the US to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital and relocate the embassy there... READ MORE›
CHIEF JUDGE QUITS OVER 'BEGGING FOR GULF MONEY'
'Inappropriate statement' Retired army general and writer Musa al-Odwan also called Hilayel's sermon inappropriate, and hugely embarrassing to Jordan ... READ MORE›
IRAQ ARMY 'TAKES' EAST MOSUL FROM ISIL
Iraq's army says it has retaken all of eastern Mosul from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ISIL ... READ MORE›
CRUISING AROUND THE WORLD IN 115 DAYS
We've enjoyed all of these classic experiences on previous world cruises... READ MORE›
ISTANBUL NEW YEAR NIGHTCLUB ATTACKER 'CAUGHT'
Man suspected of killing 39 people in Reina nightclub captured in apartment in Esenyurt district, say Turkish media... READ MORE›
COURT REJECTS RED SEA ISLANDS TRANSFER TO SAUDI ARABIA
In final verdict, Egyptian court rules against government agreement to hand over Tiran and Sanafir to Saudi Arabia... READ MORE›
PRO-REFORM JORDAN GROUP CRITICISES DETENTIONS
His lawyer said he would have to wait until Tuesday to meet his client to find out what happened... READ MORE›
100 WOMEN: THE SAUDI WOMEN CHALLENGING MALE GUARDIANSHIP
Women are using new methods to press Saudi Arabia's government to end the male guardianship system... READ MORE›
WILL TRUMP BE THE PRESIDENT WHO MOVES THE U.S. EMBASSY TO JERUSALEM?
Shtayyeh said that if Trump moved the embassy to Jerusalem, the Palestine Liberation Organization would consider revoking its recognition of the State of Israel... READ MORE›
ISRAELI ARMY KILLS PALESTINIAN IN WEST BANK FARAA CAMP
Israeli soldiers have shot and killed a Palestinian during an army raid of a West Bank refugee camp, according to Palestinian and Israeli sources... READ MORE›
US SOLDIER, PART OF ANTI-IS PUSH, DIES IN JORDAN
AMMAN, Jordan AP -- The U.S. military says a soldier has died in a noncombat related incident while operating construction equipment in Jordan... READ MORE›
'WHERE WAS YOUR SENSE OF DECENCY?'
In the video, the male suspects use knives to cut the victim's hair and his sweatshirt with a knife... READ MORE›
ISRAEL HALTS $6M TO UN TO PROTEST UNSC SETTLEMENTS VOTE
Announcement comes in reaction to recent UN vote condemning Israeli settlements in occupied Palestinian territories... READ MORE›
MOVING U.S. EMBASSY TO JERUSALEM WOULD HAVE 'CATASTROPHIC' CONSEQUENCES
Israel captured east Jerusalem from Jordan in 1967 and annexed it to its capital... READ MORE›
JORDAN SAYS MOVING US EMBASSY TO JERUSALEM IS 'RED LINE'
Israel captured east Jerusalem from Jordan in 1967 and annexed it to its capital... READ MORE›
FOUR CHARGED WITH HATE CRIME FOR CHICAGO FACEBOOK LIVE ATTACK
Jordan Hill, Brittany Covington and Tesfaye Cooper, all 18, and 24-year-old Tanishia Covington are expected to appear in a Chicago court on Friday... READ MORE›
COLOMBIA DEPORTS U.S. TOURIST WHO WAS STRANDED AT A BOGOTA AIRPORT FOR THREE MONTHS
Her goal was to travel to Jordan via Spain, but she ran out of money in the southern Colombian city of Cali... READ MORE›
TURKEY DETAINS FIVE ISLAMIC STATE SUSPECTS LINKED TO NIGHTCLUB ATTACK
He also condemned the attack on Turkey which had opened its arms to those who escaped China... READ MORE›
SELFIE FOOTAGE SHOWS 'ISTANBUL NIGHTCLUB ATTACKER' IN TOURIST SPOT BEFORE MASSACRE
Footage shows gunman unleash wave of bullets outside Istanbul nightclub Citing Justice Ministry officials, the Anadolu news agency reported that 38 of the 39 dead have been identified... READ MORE›
TURKISH MEDIA RUN 'SELFIE' VIDEO OF ALLEGED NIGHTCLUB GUNMAN
Turkish media on Tuesday broadcast a selfie video of the alleged gunman in the Istanbul nightclub attack that left a Canadian and 38 other people dead... READ MORE›
ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS GREW ON OBAMA'S WATCH. THEY MAY BE POISED FOR A BOOM ON TRUMP'S.
SHILOH, West Bank -- Through eight years of escalating criticism from the world's most powerful leader, Israeli construction in these sacred, militarily occupied hills never stopped... READ MORE›
A LOOK AT SOME OF THE 39 PEOPLE KILLED IN THE ISTANBUL ATTACK
Funerals were held Monday in Istanbul for three of the Turkish victims Fatih Cakmak, a security guard at the club, Busra Kose and Yunus Gormek... READ MORE›
Trending News Headlines : Jordan
SPIDER BITES AUSTRALIAN MAN ON PENIS AGAIN
A 21-year-old Australian tradesman using a portable toilet on a building site is bitten by a venomous spider on the penis for a second time... READ MORE›
10 000 ICELANDERS OFFER TO HOUSE SYRIAN REFUGEES AFTER AUTHOR'S CALL
I'm a teacher and would teach the child to speak, read and write Icelandic and adjust to Icelandic society... READ MORE›
SYRIA REFUGEE CRISIS: U.S. OPENS CENTRES TO SPEED VETTING
The new centres are designed to increase the channels the United States has for reaching Syrian refugees, the official said... READ MORE›
OBAMA ADMINISTRATION WAS HYPOCRITICAL ON UN'S ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS VOTE
How then, does every layperson 'know' with heartfelt surety that Israel's 'occupation' is illegal under international law?... READ MORE›
3 U.S. TROOPS KILLED IN SHOOTING NEAR JORDANIAN MILITARY BASE
Three U.S. military servicemen were killed Friday after they came under fire near a Jordanian military base, a U.S. military official told USA TODAY... READ MORE›
KERRY DEFENDS US DECISION NOT TO VETO UN RESOLUTION AGAINST ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS
The exchange between Kerry and Netanyahu marked a new low in the relationship between Israel's government and the Obama administration... READ MORE›
JORDAN: NAHED HATTAR SHOT DEAD AHEAD OF CARTOON TRIAL
A gunman has shot dead prominent Jordanian writer Nahed Hattar outside a court where he was facing charges for sharing a cartoon deemed offensive to Islam... READ MORE›
NICHOLAS KRISTOF REFUGEES WHO COULD BE US
WATCHING the horrific images of Syrian refugees struggling toward safety or in the case of Aylan Kurdi 3 drowning on that journey I think of other refugees... READ MORE›
AS MIGRANT TRAGEDIES SHOCK EUROPE A BIGGER CRISIS LOOMS IN MIDEAST
The United Nations is urging countries worldwide to grant asylum to 130,000 Syrians in the coming year... READ MORE›
A 92-YEAR-OLD BRITISH VETERAN HAS JUST OFFERED HIS SPARE ROOM TO SYRIAN REFUGEES
British armed forces veteran, 92, offers up his spare room to house desperate Syrian refugees... READ MORE›
IRAQIS THINK THE U.S. IS IN CAHOOTS WITH THE ISLAMIC STATE, AND IT IS HURTING THE WAR
BAIJI, Iraq -- On the front lines of the battle against the Islamic State, suspicion of the United States runs deep... READ MORE›
KANSAS WOMAN'S TOPICAL CHRISTMAS CARD GOES VIRAL
So this year she penned a sentence, and it's gone viral: "This Christmas season we would like to remind everyone that Jesus was a Middle Eastern refugee."... READ MORE›
MAJORITY OF ARAB YOUTH REJECTS RADICALISM
The new Arab Human Development report seeks to dispel misconceptions about young Arabs in the region... READ MORE›
A MASS MIGRATION CRISIS AND IT MAY YET GET WORSE
Nor is it only the Middle East and North Africa that European leaders need to consider... READ MORE›
JORDAN WRITER IN BLASPHEMY CASE NAHID HATTAR KILLED
A Jordanian writer charged with offending Islam after sharing a satirical cartoon on his Facebook page is killed in the capital Amman... READ MORE›
JORDAN PILOT HOSTAGE MOAZ AL-KASASBEH 'BURNED ALIVE'
A spokesman for the Jordanian armed forces, Mamdouh al-Ameri, said Lt Kasasbeh had fallen as a martyr ... READ MORE›
'WE WILL GIVE HIM A FAMILY'
The United States says it has taken in more than 10,000 Syrian refugees this year, bringing the total to just over 30,000... READ MORE›
ISLAMIC STATE JIHADIS 'MAY BE POSING AS SYRIAN REFUGEES'
Asked if Isil could be sending militants under cover of being refugees Mr Saab said Yes they bring some people the smugglers... READ MORE›
FOUR MAPS THAT EXPLAIN THE CHAOS OF THE MIDDLE EAST
Why Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Libya are in so much turmoil... READ MORE›
MUST-HAVE FOR MIGRANTS TO EUROPE THE SMARTPHONE
Syrians are helped along their journeys by Arabic-language Facebook groups like Smuggling Into the E.U., with 23,953 members, and How to Emigrate to Europe, with 39,304... READ MORE›
U.S. HAS SECRETLY EXPANDED ITS GLOBAL NETWORK OF DRONE BASES TO NORTH AFRICA
Drones flown from a new base in Tunisia are collecting intelligence on Islamic State sites in Libya... READ MORE›
SAUDI ARABIA RESPONDS TO REFUGEE CRISIS
Just this week, the al Hayat newspaper reported that 500,000 Syrians had found homes in Saudi Arabia since the civil war began - as workers, not refugees... READ MORE›
75,000 SYRIANS ARE TRAPPED NEAR JORDAN'S BORDER. SATELLITE IMAGES SHOW SOME ARE DYING.
However, there are also considerable tensions within Jordan over the Syrian refugees who have already arrived in the country... READ MORE›
SYRIAN REFUGEES PRAISED FOR SEIZING FUGITIVE IN GERMANY
Jaber al-Bakr, 22, was tied up and held by three other Syrians who alerted police... READ MORE›
ARTISTS GOT 'HOMELAND IS RACIST' ARABIC GRAFFITI INTO THE LATEST EPISODE OF 'HOMELAND'
The story of how three artists hacked the set of the Showtime series with their anti- Homeland graffiti... READ MORE›
ISIL CLAIMS RESPONSIBILITY FOR REINA ATTACK
In Istanbul, 17,000 police officers were put on duty, some disguised as Santa Claus and others as street vendors, Turkey's Anadolu news agency reported... READ MORE›
EXODUS OF SYRIANS HIGHLIGHTS POLITICAL FAILURE OF THE WEST
This week, World Food Program benefits were canceled for 229,000 Syrian refugees in Jordan... READ MORE›
SAUDI ARABIA 'DESTABILISING ARAB WORLD', GERMAN INTELLIGENCE WARNS
Saudi Arabia has previously been accused of supplying arms and funding to jihadist groups fighting in Syria, including Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant Isil ... READ MORE›
JORDAN EXECUTES TWO IN RESPONSE TO PILOT'S SLAYING
Al-Rishawi has been on death row for her role in a triple hotel bombing in the Jordanian capital Amman in 2005 that killed dozens... READ MORE›
JERUSALEM: 19-YEAR-OLD SHOT PROTESTING HOME DEMOLITION
Ahmad al-Kharoubi, 19, killed during protest against home demolition by Israeli forces in occupied East Jerusalem... READ MORE›