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May 16, 2025 at 6:53 am

Gaza children are sent back to war zone following medical care after Jordan rejects requests to stay

Seventeen Palestinian children and their caregivers were recently sent back to Gaza after receiving medical treatment in Jordan.

April 23, 2025 at 6:36 am

Jordan bans the Muslim Brotherhood in a move that threatens its largest opposition party

Jordan has announced a sweeping ban on the Muslim Brotherhood that could include shutting down the country’s largest opposition party, after accusing the Islamist group...

Nation & World

March 9, 2025 at 10:16 am

Syria’s neighboring foreign ministers call for lifting sanctions and reconciliation VIEW

Syria’s top diplomat and his counterparts from neighboring countries have called for the lifting of Western-led sanctions and post-war reconciliation.

Nation & World

January 7, 2025 at 2:16 am

First international commercial flight since Assad’s ouster lands at Syria’s main airport VIEW

The first international commercial flight since the fall of former Syrian President Bashar Assad has landed at Damascus airport.

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March 15, 2024 at 4:17 pm

From a US military plane, airdrops bring small doses of aid to Gaza, levelled by war VIEW

Two AP journalists aboard an American aid flight to Gaza observed the wreckage to the strip's north as the plane delivered much-needed food aid to...

May 1, 2023 at 2:02 am

Regional talks on Syria’s fate kick off in Jordanian capital

Regional leaders are meeting in Jordan to discuss Syria’s return to the Arab fold and a Jordanian proposal to reach a “political solution” to the...

February 16, 2023 at 3:39 am

UN official warns of rising earthquake death toll in Syria

A United Nations official says the death toll from the devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake is likely to rise as teams scramble to remove rubble in...

November 1, 2022 at 11:57 pm

Women’s soccer makes gains in Mideast despite conservatives VIEW

Women’s soccer has been long been neglected in the Middle East, a region that is mad for the men’s game and is hosting the World...

Nation & World

September 14, 2022 at 2:08 am

Jordan responders rescue infant from collapsed building VIEW

Jordanian teams have rescued an infant and are working to save others from the rubble of a collapsed building in the capital, Amman.

June 27, 2022 at 12:39 pm

Toxic gas released in Jordan port kills 13, injures 250

Authorities in Jordan say a crane loading chlorine tanks onto a ship in the port of Aqaba dropped one of them, causing an explosion of...