Exchanges of prisoners by the Damascus government and the opposition seems to be viewed by many involved in the Syrian conflict as assuming high priority, so much so that Russian President Vladimir Putin and US Secretary of State John Kerry referred to it during their last week’s

Jordan, mostly a dry country with insufficient amounts of rainfall even in the winter season, is listed among the poorest nations in terms of water resources.As such, and badly in need of more precipitation, the country will once again attempt to make artificial rain.The Jordan M

The recapture of the ancient city of Palmyra from Daesh forces a few days ago by the Syrian army aided by Russian air strikes and pro-Damascus militias is a major victory for Damascus and its allies, especially Moscow, and a serious blow to Daesh.Freeing this UNESCO world heritag

US President Barack Obama said his administration will start declassifying documents related to Argentina’s “dirty war”, between 1976 and 1983, during which over 20,000 citizens disappeared. These “missing” Marxists, labour union leaders, human rights activists and leftist o

Women taxi drivers are trying to break the mould and make their presence felt in a domain long regarded as a male dominion, helped by a bid to integrate women in all sectors of the economy.Noor Jordan for Transport-Taxi Moumayaz took the initiative of hiring women drivers for its

Iraq could be facing a human and environmental disaster of great proportions if the Mosul Dam, on the Tigris River, is not attended to, and fast, US experts say.The deteriorating dam, which needs daily maintenance work, according to one of the engineers who has been working on th

While the Syrian government delegation to the peace talks in Geneva rejects any discussion of the future of President Bashar Assad, opposition leaders insist he must go if a transition government is to be instated in the country, taking talks back to a stalemate that UN special e

Front-runner Democratic candidate to the White House Hillary Clinton gave the world, in general, and the Arab countries, in particular, especially the Palestinian people, a hint at what her foreign policy would be if she were elected US president in November.Addressing the packed

The heinous attacks that took place in Brussels Tuesday morning killing scores of innocent people and wounding many others are deplorable by all means.Attacks on innocent people, be it in Brussels or anywhere else in the world, are attacks against humanity as a whole, and perpetr