Israel has seen “unprecedented” intelligence cooperation with Egypt and Jordan as the countries’ fight against the Islamic State group nudge them to work together more closely, Israel’s deputy military chief said Wednesday.
The head of Israel’s Mossad met with Jordan’s King Abdullah in Amman in part to discuss Russian military intervention in embattled Syria, according to a report released Friday by the news site Middle East Eye.
Amman reportedly rejected an extradition request from France for two suspects wanted for the murder of six people in a deadly attack on a Jewish restaurant in Paris in 1982, AFP reported Wednesday, citing a judicial source.
Many have been puzzled at the way in which Arab members of the US-led coalition bombing Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria and Iraq have quietly been ending their involvement, even as the West escalates its own.
AMMAN – A Jordanian police officer has shot and killed two American civilian instructors and a South African man at a training facility for Iraqi and Palestinian Authority forces near Amman.
Israel has given retired U.S.-supplied Cobra combat helicopters to Jordan to help the Hashemite kingdom fend off insurgent threats on the Syrian and Iraqi borders, a U.S. official with knowledge of the deal has told Reuters.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — An uncle of the man who killed four Marines and a sailor in Tennessee has been in custody in Jordan since a day after the attacks on two military sites, a lawyer said Tuesday.
Jordanian security forces have thwarted an Iranian-backed terror plot against Saudi Arabia, local media reported Monday.
A Jordanian columnist is extremely concerned that Arab countries have turned their backs on the kingdom, pushing it straight into Israel’s lap.