The “framework” for a deal between the six world countries and Iran on the latter’s nuclear programme was reached Thursday in Switzerland, giving way to cautious optimism that a final agreement could be reached by June 30, the date set for a comprehensive accord

Palestine became the 123rd state member of the International Criminal Court, exactly 90 days after it had joined the court’s founding Rome Statute. The move opens the door to possible prosecution of Israelis for alleged war crimes. Faced with an impasse in the peace talks

The Kuwait III donor conference tackling humanitarian aid to Syrian refugees convened amidst growing fears that the Syrian crisis has no immediate end in sight and, as a result, more people will lose lives and homes, the latter adding to the already big number of refugees in neig

The Greater Amman Municipality installed cameras on main thoroughfares and at street corners to capture as many violations — particularly traffic — as possible, in a bid to lower the number of accidents responsible for the injury and death of many citizens. According

His Majesty King Abdullah’s talks with Speaker of US House of Representatives John Boehner during his visit to Amman reinforced Jordan’s message to Washington about burning matters in the region. Boehner is a powerful leader of the Republican Party, which controls bo

France seems determined to push for the adoption of a UN Security Council resolution aiming to revive Palestinian-Israeli peace prospects. The French initiative, announced Friday by Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius at the UN headquarters in New York, comes soon after Israeli Prim

Arab leaders meeting in Sharm El Sheikh, at a time when the situation in the Arab world seems to be at its worst. The Arab nation is swamped in conflicts, disputes and crises, its peoples are divided, defeated or resigned to their fate and, most disheartening, there is no end in

His Majesty King Abdullah’s recent working visit to the Greater Amman Municipality emphasises the central place, and role, the capital holds and plays in the country. With 4 million people living in Amman, a clear majority out of a total population of over six-and-a-half m

The announcement by the minister of planning that the government will have to develop and adopt a three-year plan to deal with the ever-growing Syrian refugees in the country is sound, if overdue. Of course few could have anticipated that the Syrian refugee crisis would grow to