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  • West Bank Attack Kills 2 Israelis as Middle East Officials Meet in Jordan

    A Palestinian gunman killed two Israelis as American, Israeli and Arab officials met to discuss ways to lower tensions. Then Jewish settlers went on a rampage.

  • Israel refills the Sea of Galilee, supplying Jordan on the way

    When the floodgates are open, a torrent of water gushes into a dry river bed and races to the shore of the Sea of Galilee, a biblical lake in northern Israel that was being lost to drought and the growing population around it. The water is fresh, high-quality, expensive. Desalinated from the Mediterranean Sea and transported across the country where it awaits the order to replenish the lake should it start to shrink again.

  • Deloitte picks Jordan for 3rd Digital Center in the Middle East

    Based in Amman, the new Digital Center will help Deloitte’s advisors and technologists inform, inspire and support clients across a range of disciplines offered by Deloitte Consulting, and subsidiaries Monitor Deloitte and Deloitte Digital.

  • Why Lebanon, Iraq and Jordan rank among the ‘world’s angriest countries’

    Just as the world economy appeared to be recovering from the lockdowns, supply-chain disruptions and travel bans of the COVID-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine sent inflation spiralling, with rising food and fuel prices falling heavily on the world’s poorest.

  • U.S. Special Envoy for Yemen Lenderking’s Travel to Jordan and Saudi Arabia

    U.S. Special Envoy for Yemen Tim Lenderking traveled to Jordan and Saudi Arabia on January 3 to advance UN-led peace efforts and to support the Yemeni parties to reach an agreement on a truce extension and expansion, for the sake of all Yemenis.  A durable ceasefire and an inclusive Yemeni-led political settlement are the only path forward to end the conflict and reverse Yemen’s dire humanitarian crisis.  We urge the Houthis to cooperate with the UN and listen to Yemeni calls for justice, accountability, and peace. Yemenis deserve to determine the future of their country, and the United States remains committed to supporting a sustainable end to over eight years of conflict.

  • The Grand Bargain’s empty promise in Jordan

    Six and a half years ago, 30 international governments and organizations gathered in Istanbul with an ambitious goal to revolutionize the humanitarian and development industries. Their negotiations yielded the Grand Bargain, an agreement among the largest international non-governmental organizations (INGOs) to allocate 25% of their humanitarian funding to small NGOs around the world. Nonprofits like CARE, Mercy Corps, and the Norwegian Refugee Council all joined, committing to bankroll local NGO budgets by reducing their own. And local NGOs, for their part, promised to use their knowledge and networks to improve humanitarian response.

  • Iranian Minister Says Spoke to Saudi Counterpart at Jordan Conference

    Iran's foreign minister said on Wednesday he spoke with his Saudi counterpart on the sidelines of a conference in Jordan the previous day, the highest-level encounter reported between officials from the rival states since they cut ties in 2016. The Middle East's leading Shi'ite and Sunni Muslim powers, Saudi Arabia and Iran have been on opposing sides of conflicts across the region including in Syria and Yemen. Iraq has hosted five meetings between Saudi and Iranian officials since last year in a bid to ease tensions, the last of which was in April.

  • Mideast foes among attendees at France-backed conference in Jordan

    Middle East adversaries Saudi Arabia and Iran are among the countries attending a conference in Jordan on Tuesday organised by France and Iraq which aims to provide a forum for discussing the region’s problems.

    French President Emmanuel Macron is attending the conference as a follow up to a previous gathering convened in Baghdad in August 2021 that was aimed at showing support for Iraq.

    “The idea is to see the path we can take to try to bring the sides’ perspectives closer,” said a French presidency official, referring to regional countries. “The idea of the Baghdad format is really to gather the main regional actors to exchange views and see how to move forward politically.”

  • Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince, Jordanian King discuss bilateral ties

    Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman discussed bilateral relations in a phone call with Jordan's King Abdullah II, the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported Tuesday.

  • Saudi crown prince meets Jordan’s PM

    Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman met in Riyadh Jordan’s Prime Minister Bisher Al-Khasawneh. The Saudi Press Agency said early Tuesday that the meeting discussed bilateral relations. Saudi Minister of State Khaled Al-Issa attended the meeting.