Tag: Jordan
Jordanian MP: ‘I dare any lawyer, engineer or doctor to say hello to a...
A Jordanian MP said during a television interview last week that “all Arab peoples completely reject” U.S. President Donald Trump’s Mideast peace plan and called for the region’s people to pressure their governments to...
Hundreds of Jordanians protest gas deal with Israel
Hundreds of Jordanians protested in the Jordanian capital of Amman on Friday demanding that the government cancel a natural-gas deal with Israel.
Jordanian security forces stopped the protesters from reaching the Al-Nakheel Square, where the...
Jordan: Israeli annexation ‘unthinkable,’ US-Iran war would cause ‘untold chaos’
Jordan’s King Abdullah II warned on Wednesday that Israeli attempts to “impose an unthinkable solution” on the Palestinians could end hopes for a Palestinian state, and said that a war between Iran and the...
Jordan conducts military maneuvers simulating war with Israel
The Jordanian Army conducted a series of military maneuvers this week simulating an attempted invasion of the kingdom, but which also appeared to be a message to Israel.
The maneuvers, which took place on Nov....
Former Jordanian foreign minister calls for review of peace treaty with Israel
Jordan’s former foreign minister said last week that without a two-state solution Jordan’s national security is at risk, requiring a reexamination of its 1994 peace treaty with Israel.
In an interview with the Jordan’s Al-Mamlaka TV that...
Netanyahu, Knesset mark 25 years of peace between Israel and neighboring Jordan
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday marked 25 years of a peace agreement between Israel and Jordan.
“We have an outstanding interest in keeping the peace agreement due to the fact that we have...
US rejects Jordan’s opposition to deport wanted terrorist
The United States has rejected a claim by Jordan over its refusal to deport wanted Palestinian-Jordanian Hamas terrorist Ahlam Tamimi, as a Jordanian court ruled in 2017 that Amman’s extradition treaty with Washington is...
Israeli farmland set to be handed back to Jordan
Israel will have to return two parcels of agricultural land in the Jordan Valley to Jordan soon, after the Hashemite Kingdom refused to extend a lease on the lands outlined in the 1994 Israel-Jordan...
UNRWA must evolve or dissolve, says senior agency official at end of General Assembly
“Direct pressure” by donors is the most likely way to induce the United Nations Relief and Works Agency to change, former UNRWA general counsel James Lindsay told JNS as the 74th session of the...
Jordan, Iraq sign nuclear energy agreement
Jordan and Iraq signed a nuclear-energy cooperation agreement on Saturday, according to reports in Jordanian media.
The protocol was signed by Jordan Atomic Energy Commission chairman Khaled Toukan and Iraqi Higher Education and Scientific Research...