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More than 577 pilgrims from Jordan, Egypt, Tunisia, and Indonesia are confirmed to have died of heat-related illnesses during the Hajj in Saudi Arabia.
2024-06-18

Two pilots are killed when their plane crashes in Ar-Ramtha, Jordan.
2022-06-5

Jordan bans public worship at mosques during Ramadan, and will not allow evening prayers, as a precaution to fight the virus.
2020-04-14

King Abdullah II announces Jordan will reclaim two small plots of farmland territory leased to Israel under their 1994 peace treaty.
2018-10-21

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met today in Berlin with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu regarding the recent spate of violence between Palestinians and Israelis. Kerry will meet on Saturday with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and King Abdullah of Jordan in Amman.
2015-10-22

The Israel Defense Forces launch an air and artillery offensive in the Gaza Strip to quell rocket attacks and the Israeli Air Force conducts more air strikes against the Gaza Strip after Hamas fires rockets into Israel.
2014-07-8

Lebanon and Jordan say the Lebanese air space and the Jordanian territories would not be made available for military intervention in Syria.
2013-08-29

Abu Qatada, a Palestinian Muslim cleric allegedly affiliated with al-Qaeda, is deported from the United Kingdom to Jordan to face charges of terrorism.
2013-07-7

An EgyptAir pilot makes an emergency landing at Hurghada airport after a snake bites a Jordanian passenger.
2012-12-3

Mohammad al-Dahabi, the former spy chief of Jordan, is sentenced to 13 years imprisonment after being convicted of corruption.
2012-11-11