Jordan

King of Jordan becomes latest Arab leader to call Biden about election victory

Mica Soellner · November 23, 2020 7:12 pm

Beltway Confidential

Jordan will gain nothing from confrontation against Israel

Erielle Davidson · June 30, 2020 4:16 pm

Bethlehem, West Bank, Palestine.

Beltway Confidential

Trump must address Jordan’s West Bank concerns

Tom Rogan · May 20, 2020 7:15 pm

A worker sprays disinfectant as a precaution against the coronavirus in a playground in the central Israeli city of Bat Yam on Wednesday.

Israel seals borders and shuts down entire country to foreigners

Zach Halaschak · March 18, 2020 7:07 pm

President Trump said Tuesday in Jerusalem that a peace deal with the Palestinians is possible. "Making peace, however, will not be easy," Trump said during a speech at the Israel Museum alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump and Netanyahu portray themselves as tending to business while enemies circle

Rob Crilly · January 28, 2020 10:00 pm

Ringo, a three and a half year old Black Labrador, used as an off-leash bomb-sniffing dog, waits for the command of U.S. Marine Corps dog handler Lance Cpl. William Childs, left, as trainer Adam Ward, a contractor working for American K-9 Interdiction, right, looks on, at U.S. Marine Combat Outpost Geronimo, in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, Friday, Sept. 18, 2009.

US stops sending bomb-sniffing dogs to Jordan and Egypt after mistreatment

Tim Pearce · December 24, 2019 7:32 pm

In this Thursday, June 9, 2016, photo, Transportation Safety Administration dog trainer Mitchell Brown works with Atilla, a bomb-sniffing dog, in a makeshift luggage area at Lackland Air Force Base training facility in San Antonio.

Bomb-sniffing dogs sent by US to Jordan dying from poor treatment

Caitlin Yilek · September 16, 2019 5:57 pm

Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Sergei Kislyak.

Ted Cruz tells Mike Pompeo to 'follow the damn law' on arms sales

Joel Gehrke · July 10, 2019 8:13 pm

Abdelhaleem Ashqar is surrounded by cameramen as he leaves federal court with his wife, Thursday, Feb. 1, 2007, in Chicago.

Palestinian activist who refused to testify against Hamas back in US after federal judge blocks deportation

Zach Halaschak · June 10, 2019 3:53 pm

Former White House adviser Jared Kushner.

Kushner: Mideast peace plan delayed two months, until June

Steven Nelson · April 17, 2019 6:04 pm

Whistleblower claims US anti-terrorism dogs dying overseas from ‘poor working conditions’

Vaishnavee Sharma · February 7, 2019 4:15 am

James Moriarty, 70, speaks during an interview about the death and trial of his son, fallen U.S. Green Beret 27-year-old Staff Sgt. James F. Moriarty, in Amman, Jordan on Wed. June 21, 2017. Both Brian McEnroe and James Moriarty, fathers of two of the three American soldiers who were shot dead at a Jordanian military base, are attending the latest hearing in the trial here of the Jordanian serviceman accused of killing them. The families have expressed outrage over the Jordanian government's initial claim that the three American Green Berets triggered the shooting by misconduct at the gate of the al-Jafr air base in southern Jordan.

Fathers of slain US troops in Jordan see echoes of Jamal Khashoggi murder: ‘Lie after lie’

Travis J. Tritten · November 18, 2018 11:00 pm