His Majesty King Abdullah’s speech to the European Parliament in Strasbourg last week had a resounding impact on world leaders and peoples as he affirmed that Jordan will not allow Daesh to hijack our religion, distort its image and defame our noble values.  Arab

The Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan is confronting this week a dilemma whose ramifications will impact the political life as well as the rank and file of tens of thousands of Islamic activists. Former head of the Brotherhood, lawyer Abdel Majid Thneibat, along with nearly 200

Mudar Badran, statesman and former prime minister, published this week his memoirs which are a compendium of answers to three enigmatic questions. The first is the untold story of the decision-making process at the Royal Court during the tumultuous 30 years of labyrinth pol

The assassination of an Iraqi member of parliament on February 13, 2015, created an immediate reaction by the Sunni members of the parliament who suspended their participation in all debates since they considered it a sectarian crime, committed by Shiite militias against a promin

The Israeli mayor of Jerusalem, Nir Barkat, during a press conference last week admitted that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had allocated nearly $1 billion to rejuvenate the old city.  The idea is to make it attractive to the four billion tourists who would love to visi

Sheer force cannot defeat the so-called Islamic State, known in Arabic as Daesh. Jordanians have to avenge the brutal murder of Muath Kasasbeh. Air strikes and special forces operations might inflict great damage to the group’s infrastructure in Syria and Iraq.

“The region cannot afford another war front.” This is the main message sent to Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon this week by Hizbollah’s secretary general, Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah, through the United Nations peacekeeping agency UNIFIL. The massage cla

The general elections in Israel, due in two months, took their first toll this week when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered a new escalation on the Golan front, ordering an Apache to shoot two missiles at a reconnaissance mission organised by Iranian and Hizbollah special

The terrorist attack on the French newspaper Charlie Hebdo created diametrically opposite reactions among Jordanians. The two assailants constitute the same phenomenon of salafist jihadists that Maan and Zarqa accommodate: lone wolves on the loose. It was not surprising th