On Thursday, the Times of Israel reported that the leaders of Jordan, Egypt, and the Palestinian Authority would separately meet with President Donald Trump at the White House in April.
Jordan hanged 15 death row prisoners at dawn on Saturday, its information minister said, in a further break with the moratorium on executions it had observed between 2006 and 2014.
WASHINGTON — President Trump and his advisers, venturing for the first time into the fraught world of Middle East peacemaking, are developing a strategy on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that would enlist Arab nations like Saudi Arabia and Egypt to break years of deadlock.
Dozens of Quranic verses have been removed from the national curriculum, including those referencing jihad, promting criticism from the Muslim Brotherhood and its Jordanian representatives.
Tourists from Canada, Britain and Malaysia were hiding inside a Crusader castle during armed clashes between Jordan troops and gunmen at the site, Jordan’s interior minister said Monday, denying initial report that foreigners had been held hostage.
Patriotic music and songs praising Jordan’s King Abdullah II boom from a white tent pitched in Amman by candidates standing in Tuesday’s parliamentary election.
King Abdullah II of Jordan said that the coming battles against the Islamic State (ISIS) terror group will be part of a “third world war against humanity,” making remarks in the wake of the deadly ISIS-committed Paris terror attacks last week.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is scheduled this week to hold meetings with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, and Jordan’s King Abdullah II.
Jordan’s King Abdullah II spoke Monday at the UN General Assembly debate in New York, honing in on the battle against the Islamic State, the situation in Jerusalem, and the Syrian refugee crisis as the primary issues for Amman and the world as a whole.
Jordan’s King Abdullah II said that as a result of the Arab Spring, Arab countries have realized “we need to stand more on our own two feet, and take our own decisions and be more bullish and straightforward about it”
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The King of Jordan, like President Obama, believes Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL) jihadists should not be called “Islamic extremists.”
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Yes, it’s unfortunate that the US has a president, Barack Obama, who consistently sees things from the Muslim point of view. Even the Obamaphilic reporter Juliet Eilperin, writing for the Obamaphilic Washington Post, had to admit, “President Obama has never been one to go easy on America.”
The Jordanian armed forces have carried out dozens of bombing runs over both Syria and Iraq over the past two days, which come in the wake of the Islamic State’s brutal murder of captive Jordanian pilot 1st Lt. Moath Kasasbeh.
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