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Three American soldiers are killed and 47 others are injured in a drone attack upon a U.S. base in Rukban, Mafraq Governorate, Jordan, near the border with Syria, by Islamic Resistance in Iraq militants.
2024-01-28

Jordan approves the emergency use of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine.
2021-03-10

Jordan reports a record 7,933 new confirmed cases in the past 24 hours, bringing the nationwide cumulative total to 163,926 cases.
2020-11-18

Citizens of Jordan cast their votes in a general election after the country's House of Representatives was dissolved in September. The election takes place during a rapid surge of new COVID-19 infections.
2020-11-10

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

Jordanian authorities release a video of a Jordanian Air Force sergeant shooting United States soldiers.
2017-07-25

Ahmad Daqamseh, the Jordanian soldier who shot seven Israeli schoolchildren on March 13, 1997, is released from prison in Jordan.
2017-03-12

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

Thousands of people take to the streets of Jordan for the third consecutive Friday of protests over inflation, unemployment and rising prices, amid demands for the resignation of Prime Minister Samir Rifai.
2011-01-28

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