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For the third consecutive month this year, Airport International Group - the Jordanian company responsible for the rehabilitation, expansion and operation of the Queen Alia International Airport - has recorded positive results for QAIA traffic growth in March 2013.

Authors: Robert Satloff, Executive Director, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, and David Schenker, Director, Program on Arab Politics, Washington Institute for Near East Policy Jordan has so far weathered the political storm that has engulfed much of the Middle East since late 2010.

Whether the Jordanian government likes it or not, the Jordanian-Palestinian agreement and the mood of the people regarding Jerusalem require it to take a new look at the situation in the holy city.

The New York Post reports that J-Lo is in the process of purchasing this Hamptons estate, last asking $9.995M, and boasting a 8,659-square-foot main house on three acres.

It is becoming clearer what the future Israeli plan for the Palestinians is. With the collusion of the United States the plan has two main components: The first is to make the life of the Palestinians miserable enough that they will want to leave and immigrate elsewhere.

Hundreds showed up at Auburn City Hall on Tuesday evening to pay their respects to U.S. Army Staff Sgt.

For more than 13 years, some of the most expensive cars to hit the road have been made in Onondaga County.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says he expects Syria's government and the main opposition coalition to attend a peace conference in early June, with the goal of ending their two-year conflict.

The United States and Britain have stepped up pressure on Russia over Syria, but US president Barack Obama warned old suspicions could trample new "common ground" on the crisis.

Ahmad Battah, Mutah University's Vice-president for Academic Affairs, honored the winners of the Sixth National Technology Parade .

Syrian troops have taken full control of a town near the highway linking the capital Damascus with Jordan, a new advance in the regime's campaign to drive rebels from the strategic south, an activist group said Monday.

When Amtrak unveils the first of 70 new locomotives Monday at a plant in California, it will mark what the national passenger railroad service hopes will be a new era of better reliability, streamlined maintenance... When Amtrak unveils the first of 70 new locomotives Monday at a plant in California, it will mark what the national passenger ... (more)

Palestinians demonstrate at Al Aqsa mosque following Friday prayers outside the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem's Old City on Friday, May 10.

Syrian rebels on Sunday freed four Filipino U.N. peacekeepers whom they had captured on the ceasefire line between Syria and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights last week.

Radical cleric Abu Qatada to leave Britain voluntarily * Britain has tried for years to deport Abu Qatada to Jordan * New treaty signed to allay court concerns over torture * Lawyer says Abu Qatada will return when treaty ratified LONDON: Radical Muslim cleric Abu Qatada will return to Jordan voluntarily when the Jordanian... US aircraft carrier ... (more)

Abu Qatada's lawyers are due in court to appeal against the way he was returned to prison earlier this year Scotland Yard alerted the Danes as part of its probe into whether the preacher published extremist material online while on bail and fighting deportation.

Drug users inject a mixture of heroin and water at a drug den in Ciudad Juarez December 13, 2012.

Thursday, May 9, 2013 Amman - Bringing together over 130 Jordanian university students, graduates, and workers in IT companies, the event acquainted attendees with means of entrepreneurial success and ways to boost creativity.

The constant refrain of Israel's critics in the last few decades has been the need for the Jewish state to withdraw from every inch of territory it won in the Six-Day War and to return to what they erroneously refer to as the "1967 borders." But as Israelis celebrate the 46th anniversary of the re-unification of their capital city today that was ... (more)

Israeli police have detained the top Muslim cleric in the Palestinian territories and are questioning him over the latest disturbances at a Jerusalem shrine.