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Two gunmen entering Israel from Jordan are killed in a shootout with border guards near the Dead Sea.
2024-10-18

Twelve people are killed and 251 others injured by a toxic gas leak in the port of Aqaba, Jordan.
2022-06-27

Jordan's health minister resigns after six COVID-19 patients die due to a lack of supplemental oxygen at a hospital ward in Al-Salt.
2021-03-13

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

Jordan says the country executed 15 people today, including 10 who were convicted on terrorism charges with others related to incidents that go back as far as 2003. Amnesty International protests the executions which were carried out in "secrecy and without transparency." Jordan restored the death sentence by hanging in 2014.
2017-03-4

Jordan declares its borders with Syria and Iraq are to be closed military zones following yesterday's suicide bomb attack in Rukban, Mafraq Governorate, that killed six soldiers.
2016-06-22

A Jordanian judge is fatally shot by Israeli Border Police after he allegedly attempted to grab one of their rifles.
2014-03-10

An explosion hits the gas pipeline between Egypt, Israel and Jordan in the North Sinai Governorate west of Arish.
2012-02-5

Natural gas supplies to Jordan and Israel are hit by an explosion in the Arab Gas Pipeline in the town of Arish in North Sinai near Egypt's border with Israel with an armed group believed responsible.
2011-04-27

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