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TEL AVIV – In a first, the U.S. has issued an extradition request for a Jordanian woman charged with the killing of Americans in a Jerusalem bombing during the Second Intifada.

TEL AVIV – The leader of a Palestinian terrorist group in Lebanon called for an “all-out war” with Israel and Jordan, in which Iranian soldiers would fight to “liberate Palestine.”

TEL AVIV – A Sudanese cleric and politician has called for his country to declare a truce with Israel, saying that Sharia law permits it and that prolonging the boycott was only harming Sudan and not the Jewish state.

TEL AVIV — There is fear that further advances by the Syrian army, assisted by the Iran-backed Hezbollah and elite Iranian troops, may turn the Israel-Jordan-Syria border area into an Iranian proxy base, an Arab intelligence officer said.

Dozens of Quranic verses have been removed from the national curriculum, including those referencing jihad, promting criticism from the Muslim Brotherhood and its Jordanian representatives.

Jordan’s King Abdullah is in Washington this week to meet with high-ranking members of the new administration, including a meeting with President Trump scheduled for Thursday.

Jordan’s King Abdullah is scheduled to begin a visit Monday to the United States where he is expected to meet with key officials from President Donald Trump’s administration and members of Congress, announced the Jordanian embassy.

An Egyptian court has ruled against the government’s decision to hand over two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia — a landmark verdict likely to deepen tensions with the kingdom.

Bullet marks on the thick walls of a Crusader fortress and shattered windows of nearby tourist restaurants – damage from a recent shooting rampage – bear witness to Jordan’s vulnerability to attacks by Islamic extremists.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took to Facebook on Tuesday to provide context about the historical, religious and legal Jewish connections to the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem, lands baselessly declared occupied Palestinian territory in last week’s anti-Israel UN resolution.

Gunmen killed four Jordanian policemen in a new shootout Tuesday in Karak, where a weekend attack claimed by the Islamic State group left 10 people dead, a security source said.

The Islamic State jihadist group on Tuesday claimed responsibility for Sunday’s attack at a popular tourist destination in Jordan that killed 10 people, including seven policemen, two civilians and a Canadian tourist.

Tourists from Canada, Britain and Malaysia were hiding inside a Crusader castle during armed clashes between Jordan troops and gunmen at the site, Jordan’s interior minister said Monday, denying initial report that foreigners had been held hostage.

Gunmen killed 10 people including a Canadian tourist and police officers on Sunday in southern Jordan where security forces were hunting down the unidentified attackers.

TEL AVIV – Israel is set to double its annual water supply to Jordan as the country suffers from a deepening water crisis, made worse by the influx of refugees flooding its borders since the Syrian civil war broke out.

The leader of one of New Jersey’s largest mosques is heading to court to fight from being deported after federal authorities say he lied on his green card application about being detained by Israel more than 20 years ago.

The partners in the Leviathan natural gas field off Israel’s coast said on Thursday they signed a deal worth about $2 billion to supply gas to Dalia Power Engines.

Contents: Mahmoud Abbas, 81, reelected leader of Fatah/Palestinian Authority; Hopes again grow for Gaza-West Bank unity government

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanked Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday evening for Palestinian assistance in battling wildfires that have raged throughout the country since Tuesday, forcing tens of thousands to evacuate their homes.  The Palestinian Authority

TEL AVIV – The so-called wave of terror sweeping Israel since last year clearly has morphed into the dangerous phenomenon we are currently witnessing in Israel – arson terrorism aimed at causing maximum casualties and damage across the Jewish state.

King Abdullah II of Jordan said Muslims must unite with Christians and Jews in order to defeat the Islamic State group, which he called a global threat.

Three American service members have been killed in a “green-on-blue” ambush attack outside a Jordan military training facility.

TEL AVIV – For the first time ever, a team of international athletes will attempt to swim across the Dead Sea later this month, Green Prophet reported.

Not all former inhabitants of the diverse Iraqi city of Mosul, once considered the heartland of Iraq’s Christian community, will be able to return once it is recaptured from the Islamic State by the U.S.-backed Iraqi military forces and their allies.

Jordanian citizens have asked Islamic clerics whether, following the national power company’s multi-million gas deal with Israel, taking electricity off the central grid would not be considered stealing, the local media reported.

Jordan is willing to allow regular aid drops by crane from its territory to tens of thousands of Syrians stranded on its sealed desert border, the government spokesman said on Monday.

The WikiLeaks document dump of Hillary Clinton’s paid speeches revealed the Democratic nominee told a private group in 2013 that the country of Jordan “can’t possibly vet all those [Syrian] refugees … so they don’t know if … jihadists are coming in along with legitimate refugees.”

TEL AVIV – The nephew of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is reported to be the most likely successor to head the Palestinian Authority after an aging Mahmoud Abbas steps down.

“What happens in Syria in the coming days and weeks can define the future of the Middle East,” stated Breitbart’s Aaron Klein. “It can define the future of the powerbrokers in the region… What is playing out…at the United Nations actually

TEL AVIV – A day and a half after the death of Israeli statesman Shimon Peres and not a single Arab leader has said they would join countless world leaders – including President Barack Obama – to attend his funeral.

The arrest of a gunman directly after the assassination of writer Nahed Hattar in Amman on Sunday is no consolation to an increasingly troubled country that now must come to terms with its own extremism.

TEL AVIV – A senior Egyptian intelligence official derided Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to one of his main rivals in a newly leaked phone call, saying the Palestinian Authority chief is a “camel” who is old and stupid and that the Fatah party is “screwed” under his leadership.

Jordan’s judiciary Monday slapped a media blackout on the murder of a Christian writer shot dead outside an Amman court where he faced charges over an anti-Islam cartoon.

Contents: Writer Nahed Hattar, accused of blasphemy, gunned down in Amman, Jordan; Nahed Hattar shooting exposes Jordan’s secularist vs Muslim Brotherhood fault line

A gunman shot dead Jordanian Christian writer Nahed Hattar on Sunday as he was about to go to court to stand trial on charges of contempt of religion after sharing on social media a caricature that was seen as insulting God and Islam.

King Abdullah II of Jordan addressed terrorism in his remarks to the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday, portraying the “network of extremist terrorists” as a force seeking “global dominance” so they can “erase human civilization, and drag us back to the dark ages.”