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An Israeli security guard killed two Jordanians in a shooting incident in the Jordanian embassy in Amman on Sunday. The shooting has reportedly been triggered when the security guard was attacked by a Jordanian carpenter with a screwdriver. The incident Read more
Jordan, in its capacity as the custodian of the Al-Aqsa mosque, has sent its Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi to Brussels to meet with European Union’s Foreign Policy Chief Federica Moghreini. State-run Jordanian Petra News Agency reported that Safadi “warned against Read more
Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas and Israel are continuing talks for an exchange of prisoners as Israeli Prime Minister undergoes home pressure. Israel has begun talks with its enemy for the release of three Israeli soldiers arrested during Israeli army incursions Read more
The decision by Israeli authorities to reinforce security measures near the Al-Aqsa mosque following the killing of two policemen last week has been unwelcomed by Muslims in the area as well as Palestinian authorities. Fatah described the move as “terrorist Read more
A decade after Hamas seized the Gaza Strip, the living conditions for two million people in the Palestinian enclave are deteriorating “further and faster” than the prediction made in 2012 that the enclave would become “unlivable” by 2020, a new Read more
Prime Minister Netanyahu convened an emergency meeting in his office as the investigation noose tightens on him and his close aides. The agenda of the meeting has not been made public but a source told Channel 2 that the meeting Read more
The Egyptian army has appeared in US-based military analysis Global Fire Power’s 2017 review of 133 world armies as the top army in the Arab world and the 10th on the world ranking, dominated by the United States and its Read more
US permanent envoy to the United Nations pledged ironclad friendship to Israel noting that she will vehemently oppose the appointment of any Palestinian official for a UN senior position because Washington does not recognize Palestine as a “state”. Nikki Haley, Read more
Saudi Arabia’s embassy in Turkey rejected as ‘fake’ the news reportedly advising Saudi citizens to refrain from traveling to Turkey. The embassy said in a statement it did not issue such a warning. “The statement was false and was not Read more
Egypt Wednesday sent a first convoy of trucks loaded with 1 million liters of diesel fuel to power the Gaza electricity plant, out of operations for several months due to shortage of fuel, especially after Israel reduced power supply to Read more