Jordan News

As the UN reveals that the number of Syrians who have fled their country has reached one million, Oxfam's programme leader in Jordan says that the figure should be a "wake up call" for the international community.

King Abdullah of Jordan, a key Western ally, faces the threat of further protests after parliamentary elections were boycotted and dismissed by a coalition of Islamist and left-wing opponents.

Polling stations across Jordan have opened in a vote boycotted by Islamists behind strident pro-reform protests who have already labelled as illegitimate what is expected to be an opposition-free parliament.

Jordanians are being urged not to vote in their election for parliament on Wednesday by opposition groups which say it is a travesty of democracy.

Snow blankets parts of the Middle East in the worst storms in a decade.

Torrential rain, snow storms and flooding hit the Middle East.

An all-female Palestinian racing team is enthusing crowds in Jordan with their speed and skills, gaining more respect from their male counterparts in the process.

Angelina Jolie meets with Syrian refugees in Jordan who had fled from conflict in their home country.

Thousands of ordinary Syrians fleeing Assad’s brutality have been welcomed with open arms in Jordan. But the good Samaritans across the border are fast running out of patience – and room.

Thousands of ordinary Syrians fleeing Assad’s brutality have been welcomed with open arms in Jordan. But the good Samaritans across the border are fast running out of patience – and room

Telegraph View: Abu Qatada and his lawyers have used human rights laws to thwart his deportation to his native Jordan

Jordan's former intelligence chief was given 13 years and three months in jail for embezzlement, money laundering and abuse of office amid division in the kingdom over political reform.

Jordan has uncovered a "major" al-Qaeda plot to attack targets including shopping centres, according to the state news agency.

As the rate of killing worsens in Syria, refugees are fleeing to Jordan to save their families from the regime's killers.

US troops are operating in Jordan near the Syrian border in the biggest fixed deployment of American force in the region since the end of operations in Libya last year, officials have confirmed.

Syria "remains a deeply frustrating and depressing crisis", according to William Hague, who spoke amid reports the US military has sent a task force to Jordan to help handle a flood of refugees.

Thousands of Jordanians took to the streets of Amman to demand political reform yesterday, in the strongest warning to date that the country's monarchy may not yet escape the threat of the Arab Spring.

Jordan's King Abdullah II dissolved parliament and called early elections on Thursday, on the eve of a major rally by the Islamist opposition to demand reforms.

As Save the Children warns that Syrian children are suffering trauma after witnessing killings and torture, Catherine Carter, who gathered the testimonies, says that the accounts that she has heard are only "the tip of the iceberg."

Israeli officials have emphatically denied allegations made by King Abdullah II that the Jewish state has attempted to block Jordan's nuclear development.