Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi held a brief press conference on Sunday to confirm the arrest on Saturday of Prince Hamzah, among around 16 others. The royal scion held the position of crown prince under his half-brother King Abdullah II before the monarch revoked the title in 2004, making his son …
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Around 20 people were arrested in a security sweep on Saturday night, including several high-profile figures such as Sharif Hassan Ben Zaid, a member of the royal family, and Bassem Awadallah, a former finance minister and head of the royal court. Both also formerly served as royal envoys to Saudi Arabia. Amid …
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The explosion took place at a warehouse of “unusable mortar bombs” in the Ghabawi area east of Zarqa and was caused by an electrical short, Petra reported citing Jordan’s minister of media affairs Amjad Adaileh. Maps of the area show several army bases are located on the outskirts of Zarqa …
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Opened fire the soldiers said that they had heard shots from the Americans. The government of Jordan has published a video with the shooting at a military base in 2016, which killed three American soldiers. The incident occurred on 4 November 2016 at the entrance to the air base al-Jafar …
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Hundreds of ancient tombs discovered in the “valley of the dead fire”.Archaeologists found hundreds of stone tombs in form of pyramids in the Jordanian desert Jebel Kurma, which because of its aridity is also called the “valley of the dead fire”. It is reported by the scientific journal Live Science. …
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