It was no slip of the tongue when retiring US Army Chief-of-Staff Raymond Odierno said at his last Pentagon press conference that “partitioning Iraq” could happen and that “it might be the only solution” in view of the way things are going in this Arab country.The general is no n

Much hope was pinned on the meeting between Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Al Jubeir and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Moscow last Tuesday to break the deadlock in the search for a solution to the Syrian conflict. However, the two sides have diametrically opposing vi

Israeli opposition leader Isaac Herzog has literally accused the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of being racist when it comes to the treatment of Israel’s Arab citizens.

The fire that destroyed some 500 trees in Ajloun Governorate earlier this week was not the first of its kind and most probably not the last. There have been several forest fires in Ajloun over the past few years with arson being suspected as the prime cause. It took 130

It is encouraging to note that Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour himself highlighted the need to correct the existing “imbalance” in the ratio of women in senior governmental positions in comparison with their male colleagues. The premier raised this issue at the ninth Governme

Finally, the US and Russia were able to agree on a resolution aimed at identifying the culprits responsible for the deployment of chemical weapons in Syria, including chlorine gas. Last Friday, the UN Security Council unanimously adopted the resolution, which also tasked UN

As if it were not bad enough that some people “steal” water from mains supplying the precious resource to people, the same is happening with electricity.The authorities discovered no less than 141 cases of power theft during the recent heatwave that hit the country. All thes

The Greater Amman Municipality (GAM) is moving in the right direction by initiating a process designed to make the capital more dependent on renewable energy to light up its streets.Last week, GAM started installing 20 solar-powered LED lamps along the routes of the projected Bus

By all accounts, Prince Mohammad Bin Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud’s visit to Amman this week for talks with His Majesty King Abdullah was a big success. The talks between the King and the Saudi deputy crown prince, second deputy prime minister and minister of defence, opened