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Current clashes in the Middle East are part of a larger picture of volatility in a wide range of countries amid the global loss of American prestige.

Angry mobs throughout the Middle East and North Africa targeted Israeli, American, French, and other Western embassies on Tuesday night.

A mob of protesters attempted to storm the Israeli embassy in Amman, Jordan, on Tuesday. Videos posted to social media showed dozens of angry people trying to forcibly breach the embassy compound, seemingly enraged by reports of an alleged Israeli missile hitting a hospital in Gaza.

Palestinian National Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has canceled his meeting with Joe Biden in Jordan, shortly after the hospital explosion in Gaza that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) concluded was the result of a misfire by Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

A pro-Palestinian rally in Jordan was thwarted with tear gas by police when the crowd marched on the heavily fortified Israeli border.

Three United Nations staff members were arrested in Israel on suspicion of attempting to smuggle cocaine into the country from Jordan.

First Lady Jill Biden will skip Israel on her current trip to the Middle East and North Africa, visiting Jordan and Egypt to “strengthen our relationships” with allies in the region but flying over the country between them.

The United Arab Emirates is said to be mulling a downgrade in its diplomatic ties with Israel over statements by Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s denying the existence of a Palestinian people, according to the Saudi-owned Arabic Elaph outlet.

Two Israelis were shot and injured by a Palestinian terrorists in the West Bank town of Huwara on Sunday afternoon, just three weeks after another terror shooting there killed two Israelis.

As the world entered its second year of pandemic lockdowns, supply chain disruptions, and a new era of high fuel prices and inflation, the world’s most essential cargo transport professionals – truckers – took the lead in organizing anti-government protests in nearly every region of the planet.

A migrant from Jordan with three unenforced deportation orders under multiple identities has been arrested for allegedly raping a woman in a Paris hospital emergency room late last month.

At least 11 people died and 251 more were injured on Monday after a large cylinder containing “toxic gas” with a “very high chlorine content” exploded at a port in southern Jordan’s Aqaba city, Jordan’s state-run Al Mamlaka TV reported.

Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman asserted Thursday that Israel could be a “potential ally” to the Islamic kingdom.

A consortium of international journalists began reporting this weekend on the contents of a massive data leak from Credit Suisse that exposed 18,000 formerly secret bank accounts valued at over $100 billion in total.

Israel will supply natural gas to Lebanon in a U.S.-brokered deal to aid the crisis-stricken country and provide it with an alternative to Iran, Israel’s Channel 12 News reported Saturday.

Israel’s Mossad spy chief David Barnea met with Libyan Prime Minister Abdulhamid Mohammed Al-Dabaiba in Jordan to discuss normalization, Saudi Arabian and Libyan media outlets reported Wednesday night.

A fistfight broke out in the Jordanian parliament on Tuesday during a debate over amending the national constitution to strengthen equal rights for women.

Liverpool bomber Emad Al Swealmeen reportedly entered the UK with a forged passport from Jordan resulting in his asylum claim being denied.

CAIRO — Britain’s Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla, arrived in Cairo on Thursday for the first time in 15 years, hoping to promote tolerance and cement bilateral ties. The visit is part of the royal couple’s first tour since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.

Turkish authorities detained Samir Handal, a “person of great interest” for his alleged connection to the July 7 assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, on Sunday at Istanbul Airport, Turkey’s state-run Anadolu Agency reported Tuesday.

The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), the group behind the “Panama Papers” leak of financial data five years ago, released a sequel of sorts on Sunday. Dubbed the “Pandora Papers,” the new trove of leaked confidential financial documents suggests dozens of world leaders and hundreds of public officials are stashing large sums of money in hidden bank accounts and secret investment projects.

The foreign ministry of Turkey said at a press conference Tuesday it “welcomes” messages from the Taliban, including the terror group’s claims that it will ensure security for foreign embassies in Kabul following its capture of the Afghan national capital Sunday.

President Joe Biden is due to host Jordan’s King Abdullah II at the White House on July 19, marking the first time during this administration a leader from the Middle East will visit the White House.

A Democrat budget plan spends hundreds of millions of American taxpayer money on border security for a multitude of Middle Eastern countries while stripping all funds for construction of a border wall at the United States-Mexico border. 

Jordanian public prosecutor Hassan al-Abdallat issued an order Tuesday banning all Jordanian media outlets from reporting on the rift between King Abdullah II and his half-brother, former Crown Prince Hamza, ostensibly because any coverage of the royal dispute would jeopardize investigations of a seditious plot with which Hamza was supposedly involved.

Jordan accused former Crown Prince Hamza bin Hussein over the weekend of allegedly conspiring with “foreign parties” to “destabilize” the country.

Hundreds of protesters spilled onto city streets across Jordan on Sunday for the second straight day to demand government reform after an oxygen shortage at a state hospital in the city of Salt killed at least six coronavirus patients Saturday.

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Greek authorities have arrested a man of Jordanian background with a British passport, believed to be connected to radical Islamic terrorist organisations in Syria.

Eighteen leading American Jewish organizations including AIPAC called on the U.S. to pressure Jordan’s King Abdullah into extraditing a woman who was behind a 2001 terrorist attack in Jerusalem that killed 15 people, including two American citizens.

Amman — Jordan’s top court has dissolved the country’s branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, a transnational Islamist movement, an official said Thursday, citing the group’s failure to “rectify its legal status”.

JERUSALEM — A coalition of Jewish American groups has called on the U.S. government to press Jordan to extradite a Palestinian woman who helped carry out a 2001 suicide bombing that killed 15 people, including two Americans, in Jerusalem.

TEL AVIV – A staunchly pro-Israel Saudi journalist said he was stripped of his citizenship over charges of espionage, Arab media reported.

TEL AVIV — In protest over Israel’s plans to annex parts of the West Bank, Jordan’s King Abdullah II has refused to accept Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s phone calls and has so far not set a date for a meeting with Alternate Prime Minister Benny Gantz, the Palestinian Ma’an news agency reported.

TEL AVIV – The United States is considering freezing aid to Jordan in a bid to force the Hashemite kingdom to extradite the woman behind a 2001 terrorist attack in Jerusalem that killed 15 people, including two American citizens.

The Ministry of the Interior of Saudi Arabia on Friday announced a 24-hour coronavirus lockdown and nationwide curfew for the Eid al-Fitr holiday, which is scheduled for May 23 to 27 in the kingdom.