The entire nation was riveted to His Majesty King Abdullah’s words, carefully chosen to lament the killing of Muath Kasasbeh and urge the people to “unify their ranks and show the true character of the Jordanian people when they face hardships and plights, which will

The last moments in the life of Jordanian pilot Muath Kasasbeh are as compelling as they are telling. A videotape and pictures released Tuesday show the airman standing tall before an army of masked men.

With fighting in eastern Ukraine between the Ukrainian army and the Russian-backed separatists reaching a new, ominous, pitch in recent days, there is fear that the crisis will get out of control and lead to an even wider conflict. Russian President Vladimir Putin told students

The Daesh terrorist group once more surprised the world with another videotaped heinous beheading of an innocent victim, this time Japanese journalist Kenji Goto, who last week saw his compatriot Haruna Yukawa murdered by the cold-blooded members of the group in a similar fashion

The attack on a major Egyptian military base in the north of Sinai Thursday night, which left no less than 40 people dead, most of them soldiers, and over 60 injured, is significant not only because of the huge number of victims, but also for the fact that it was carried out by t

Muath Kasasbeh’s fate — the pilot held hostage by the terrorist group calling itself Islamic State after his plane crashed in an area controlled by it in northern Syria — forms a big part of the conversation among many Jordanians, and for good reason: the group

The attempt by the Daesh terror group to link the fate of a convicted terrorist to the lives of a Jordanian and a Japanese hostage is ludicrous and shows that the group is only bent on shedding blood. The group issued an ultimatum, threatening to kill the hostages if a convicted

His Majesty King Abdullah perfectly summed the situation when he said that the fight against terrorism and radicalism should not be just a military one and that this effort should be led by Arabs and Muslims, who constitute the main victims of extremism. The King told chief edit

Various Syrian opposition groups met in Cairo recently, attempting to iron out their differences and decide whether to accept Russia’s invitation to attend a peace conference in Moscow. Russia did not invite the National Coalition Alliance, the main Syrian opposition group