US Secretary of State Antony Blinken began meetings with Arab foreign ministers in Jordan on Saturday, seeking to mitigate the nearly month-long Gaza war after Israel resisted his calls for a humanitarian pause.The Israeli army said its ground forces...

After two massive, devastating earthquakes took place in the Middle East and North Africa this year, Jordan conducted a simulation of how to deal with earthquake disasters.On September 19, the Jordanian National Center for Security and Crisis Managem...

By AFPJordan's key tourism industry may have been hammered by Covid, but the pandemic gave a boost to another sector, keeping its beekeepers busy as demand for honey has soared.The country's 4,000 apiarists have ramped up output of the sweet and stic...

Including many historical places, Jordan is known for having one of the most prehistoric civilizations, the Nabatean Kingdom. Amid desert canyons, the city of Petra was taken by the Nabateans as the capital of the kingdom and an important trading cen...

Jordan is massing the international rejection of Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who give a speech on a podium with an Israeli flag to what is called “The Greater Israel” including parts of Jordanian territories and denied Palestine, a mov...

By AFPTending to his camels in Petra, Jordan's spectacular archaeological marvel hidden deep in a desert canyon, Hussein Bdoul is all smiles: the tourists are back.After years in which the Covid pandemic turned the storied "Rose City" into a ghost to...

By AFPLeaders from the Middle East and beyond pledged Tuesday to support Iraq's "stability" and called for Baghdad to distance itself from foreign influence, at a summit aimed at helping resolve regional crises.Iraq has been caught for years in a del...

The Jordanian scene today is full of accelerating events, some of which have been violent, and in the background of the scene is an economic crisis the likes of which the country has not witnessed before.While experts fear that the events will destab...

By AFP Jordan hosts a Middle East summit Tuesday bringing together regional and international players hoping to help resolve regional crises, particularly in neighbouring Iraq.The "Baghdad II" meeting, which will also include officials from France an...

Jordan has arrested dozens of people accused of involvement in protests against rising fuel prices in which a senior police officer was gunned down, the country's security agency said Saturday.Colonel Abdul Razzaq Dalabeh, the deputy police chief of...

A senior Jordanian officer was killed and two other police were wounded in the country's south, where protesters have taken to the streets for days against rising fuel prices, authorities said Friday.Colonel Abdul Razzaq Dalabeh, the deputy police ch...

Singing joyfully to beating drums, Syrian refugees who fled brutal civil war perform traditional "Arada" dances in neighbouring Jordan, honouring their home culture and earning extra income.Their performances, featuring traditional robes and whirling...