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Cinema

Arab filmmakers land four films on Academy Awards shortlist

Cinema

Kaouther Ben Hania receives looks on during the closing ceremony of the 82nd Venice International Film Festival, in Venice, Italy, September 6, 2025.

Arab filmmakers land four films on Academy Awards shortlist

Kaouther Ben Hania receives looks on during the closing ceremony of the 82nd Venice International Film Festival, in Venice, Italy, September 6, 2025.

China diplomacy

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi speaks in Beijing, October 27, 2025.

China sends top diplomat to Middle East, steps up diplomacy

Muslim Brotherhood

Jordan outlawed the Muslim Brotherhood

Jordan sentences nine in Muslim Brotherhood plot against state

Jordan - Israel

The Allenby crossing is now open

Israel reopens border crossing with Jordan

Jordan - Israel

No group has claimed responsibility

Two Israelis killed in attack at Jordan border crossing

Mideast tensions

Suspected Jordanian air strikes on southern Syria killed 10 people including children

Syria denounces Jordan’s air strikes on its territory

War on Gaza

Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi

Jordan calls on Israel to let displaced Gazans return to their homes

War on Gaza

Israeli tank

Jordan says its Gaza field hospital badly damaged by Israeli shelling nearby

War on Gaza

A mourner embraces the body of a Palestinian killed in an Israeli strike on Khan Younis

Jordan warns failure to curb Israel’s ‘extremist policies’ endangers wider region

War on Gaza

Safadi: Israel's aggression against Gaza has exceeded all the human, legal and moral limits

Jordan warns Netanyahu against drag region into wider war

Humanitarian aid

The first aid convoy has delivered 750 metric tonnes of food to Gaza

First aid convoy from Jordan delivers food to Gaza

Jordan-Syria border

The army said it would continue to track these armed groups

Jordan army seizes drugs, weapons in clashes along Syrian border

War on Gaza

Khasawneh said Israeli actions in the West Bank could trigger wider violence

Jordan beefs up army presence along borders with Israel

IMF

Jordan's Finance Minister Mohamad Al Ississ

Jordan agrees with IMF on new $1.2 billion four-year reform programme

Humanitarian aid

Jordan's royal air force

Jordan air force dropped urgent medical aid to Gaza

War on Gaza

Blinken rebuffed Arab states' push for and immediate Gaza ceasefire

Jordan accuses Israel of committing war crimes in Gaza

War on Gaza

The Hamas-Israel conflict has stirred long-standing fears in Jordan

Jordan to tell Blinken Israel must immediately stop war on Gaza

Israeli-Hamas war

Biden will then fly to Amman for talks about accelerating humanitarian assistance to Gaza

Biden leaves on whirlwind trip to Israel, Jordan

Gaza-Israel war

Abbas shaking hands with Blinken

Abbas to Blinken: We reject the forced displacement of our people in Gaza

Cybercrimes

Activists, journalists and independent politicians have criticized the draft law

HRW urges Jordan to scrap 'draconian' cybercrimes bill

War on drugs

Jordan has blamed pro-Iranian militias for smuggling drugs across its borders

Jordan’s army downs drone carrying drugs from Syria

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