Petra

Jordan has suspended a free trade agreement with Turkey as the deal negatively affected local industries, state-run Petra news agency reported on March 12.

The identities of 35 victims killed in an armed attack at a nightclub in central Istanbul on Jan. 1 have been confirmed as 24 have been identified as foreign citizens, while eleven of them were reported to be Turkish citizens.

Gunmen killed 10 people including a Canadian tourist and police officers on Dec. 18 in southern Jordan, before security forces killed four attackers in a siege lasting several hours.
The shootings took place in Karak, a tourist destination known for one of the biggest Crusader castles in the region, around 120 kilometers (70 miles) south of the capital Amman.

A gunman yesterday killed prominent Jordanian writer Nahed Hattar outside a court where he was facing charges for sharing a cartoon deemed offensive to Islam, state news agency Petra reported.

A gunman yesterday killed prominent Jordanian writer Nahed Hattar outside a court where he was facing charges for sharing a cartoon deemed offensive to Islam, state news agency Petra reported.

A top US envoy said Iraqi troops would begin a major ground offensive against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in the coming weeks, as a suicide bomber killed 14 people in Baghdad Feb. 9.

Jordan vowed on Feb. 1 to do all it could to save an airman held by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group after the jihadists killed a Japanese journalist they had been holding.

Jordan executed 11 men convicted of murder by hanging on Dec. 21, the interior ministry said, as it ended an informal eight-year moratorium on the death penalty.

"Eleven criminals convicted in different cases of murder were executed at dawn," the official Petra news agency quoted a ministry spokesman as saying.

Jordan recalled its ambassador to Israel on Nov. 5 and moved to file a U.N. complaint after police clashed with Palestinians inside the flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque compound, official media said.