When 17-year-old Alia married a 45-year-old Saudi Arabian man, she thought her family’s fortunes were turning. The Syrian girl, whose name has been changed for protection, had fled from Homs with her

Political activists in Jordan are objecting to the State Security Court’s repeated charges against them of “subverting the system of government.” Most recently, eight youth activists have been

Sally Ahmed Zarir works in a newsroom inside a refugee camp. Zarqa, Jordan's industrial centre 12 miles northeast of Amman, is home to over 50 per cent of Jordanian's factories, a 15.9 per cent

A source that preferred to remain anonymous said that MP Talal Al-Sharif would be released from Parliament and sent to public prosecution for firing an AK-47 on fellow MP Qusay Al-Damisah. The source

Tens of thousands of Syrians are waiting for an impending military strike on Syria and selection of its first target site. In expectation of the coming declaration, they have stationed themselves to

Approximately 329.37 million dollars have been withdrawn from a total grant of five billion USD sent by Gulf countries to fund developmental projects in the Hashemite kingdom. These withdrawals

Ministry of Foreign and Expatriate Affairs spokeswoman Sabah Alrafayi said that seven of the Jordanian prisoners released by the Iraqi authorities will arrive in Jordan next week. Alrafayi told

Dr. Yezid Sayigh, senior associate and strategic expert at the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut, ruled out the possibility of Jordan’s involvement in a military strike against Syria. Jordan would

The Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research has recently formed a committee to set up a proposed system for assessing the education in the Jordanian universities, headed by the president

In the early nineties, in a small village in Upper Egypt, a case of mass hysteria broke out among elementary school girls. The young girls were exhibiting symptoms of excessive uncontrolled crying