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The Jordanian State Security Court sentences a man to death for perpetrating a stabbing attack on eight people in Jerash in November 2019. The court alleges that the man "had been in contact with one of the members of the Islamic State", although the organization never claimed responsibility formally.
2021-01-12

A shooting at the Israeli embassy in Amman, Jordan, leaves one person, a Jordanian, dead, and an Israeli and a Jordanian wounded. There is speculation the attack may be linked to recent events at Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque. Another Jordanian man was killed inadvertently.
2017-07-23

Jordan says an overnight raid on an ISIL cell in the city of Irbid has left seven militants and one security officer dead, with five others injured. Those killed were planning to blow up civilian and military targets in the country, according to the General Intelligence Directorate (GID).
2016-03-2

Pope Francis arrives in Amman, Jordan, for the first day of a three day trip to the Middle East.
2014-05-24

Syrian rebels claim taking control of a military post on the edge of the city of Deraa on Syria's southern border with Jordan after four days of heavy fighting with the Syrian Armed Forces.
2013-09-28

Syrian Prime Minister Riad Hijab and his family defect to Jordan to join the opposition. State-run media claims he was fired, but the Free Syrian Army states this was only after he arrived in Jordan.
2012-08-6

Jordan opens its first camp for refugees fleeing Syria. [http:--www.petra.gov.jo-Public_News-Nws_NewsDetails.aspx?Site_Id=1&lang=2&NewsID=79460&CatID=13&Type=Home>ype=1 (Petra News Agency)]date=August 2019
2012-07-29

2011 Jordanian protests: Relatives of jailed Islamists in Jordan demand their release in a demonstration in the capital Amman.
2011-03-1

Jordanians echo events in Tunisia by staging their own protests against soaring food prices.
2011-01-15

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva lands in Israel at the start of his Middle East tour of Palestine and Jordan before his visit to Iran.
2010-03-14