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Five people are killed and 14 others are injured after a building collapsed in Amman, Jordan, 10 people are reported missing.
2022-09-13

A Muslim preacher from a local mosque shoots and kills Jordanian writer and cartoonist Nahed Hattar in front of a courthouse in the capital Amman. Authorities take the gunman into custody.
2016-09-25

Jordanian King Abdullah II dissolves the parliament and appoints a new prime minister, Hani Al-Mulki.
2016-05-30

After an eight-year informal moratorium on the death penalty, Jordan executes 11 men.
2014-12-21

Jordanian warplanes strike a convoy of vehicles as they were trying to enter Jordan from Syria.
2014-04-16

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

US President Barack Obama concludes his visit to the Middle East with a trip to the famous ruins of the ancient city of Petra in Jordan.
2013-03-23

An explosion destroys the Arab Gas Pipeline in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula supplying natural gas to Jordan and Israel.
2011-09-27

Two kidnapped Jordanian peacekeepers from the joint African Union - United Nations force in Darfur, Sudan, are released.
2010-08-17

Two rockets are fired into Jordanian territory: one explodes near Aqaba and damages a warehouse, the other falls into the Red Sea.
2010-04-22