Amman, Jordan News

This citizen journalism image shows black smoke rising from what rebels say is a helicopter that was shot down in the northern province city of Idlib, Syria.

Dum Tak Alternative Arab Music Festival will host some of the biggest independent musicians from all over the Arab world - including several from Egypt - between 28 May and 1 June in the Jordanian capital city Amman.

Samsung Electronics Levant, the world leader in consumer electronics and digital technology, and Hikmat Yassin Sons Co., announced the launch of its new Samsung 2013 Smart TV lineup in the Jordanian market in a press conference at the Sheraton Amman Al Nabil Hotel .

ITALY Successful and well known language school is situated between Milan and Turin, opened in 1972 is now for sale due to retirement.

Free Syrian Army fighters on a pick-up truck head towards their position prior to an offensive against forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in Deir al-Zor, May 15, 2013.

The United States Department of State has awarded two UCSB students with the 2013 Critical Language Scholarships for Intensive Summer Institutes, allowing them to both spend the summer in a prestigious foreign language program.

Jordan's Minister of State for Media Affairs Mohammad al-Momani said Wednesday the Syrian opposition will not take part in the meeting of "Friends of Syria" group in Jordan, slated for next week.

Palestinian refugees join other protesters as they shout slogans against Israel during a demonstration to mark Nakba Day in Amman May 15, 2013.

ZA'ATRI REFUGEE CAMP, Jordan, May 15 - Popular Spanish TV presenter Jes½s V½zquez visited Jordan this week to highlight the plight of hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees, particularly the children, and to help raise urgently-needed funds for UNHCR's Syria crisis operation.

Fortinet, a world specialist in high-performance network security, has recently conducted a keynote presentation on 'How to Make your Security 'Aware' in a BYOD World' during its participation as Gold Sponsor at the 8th Jordanian International Electrical and Electronics Engineering Conference which was held under the patronage of His Excellency the ... (more)

AMMAN, Jordan -- Um Majed's cell phone rarely stops ringing these days. She calls herself a marriage broker; in reality, she sells Syrian girls to men looking for brides at bargain prices.

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.

On the brink of opening the first overseas Beef 'O' Brady's in Saudi Arabia at the end of May, the company's Chief Development Officer James Walker said Beef's could have as many as 60 locations in the Middle East five years from now.

An Egyptian man chants anti-Israeli slogans during a Muslim Brotherhood-staged anti-Israel rally in Cairo on Friday.

A thunderstorm strikes the city of Amman, Jordan. Temperatures dropped to 20 degrees Celsius with thunderstorms and rain TODAY'S World in Pictures features photographs of a child playing in front of a fountain at a park in Tokyo and the crew of NASA Expedition 35; Commander Chris Hadfield, Russian Flight Engineer Roman Romanenko, and NASA Flight ... (more)

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

Under the patronage of HE Dr. Talal Abu-Ghazaleh, president of Talal Abu-Ghazaleh University , the Bishop's School's first youth conference "Yalla Shabab" was inaugurated at the School's headquarters in Amman.

WAM Amman, May12th, 2013 -- The UAE Jordanian camp near the Syrian border has launched a comprehensive vaccination campaign for Syrian refugees against infectious diseases and epidemics, polio and measles, and providing Syrian child refugees in the camp with vitamin A. Saif Ali Al Dhaheri, Director General of the UAE camp in Jordan stated that the ... (more)

Muslim Cleric Abu Qatada, also known as Omar Mahmoud Othman, will voluntarily go back to Jordan if and when its parliament ratifies a new deportation treaty with Britain, his lawyers have said.

Samsung Electronics Levant, the world leader in consumer electronics and digital technology, and BCI launched Samsung's latest flagship mobile the GALAXY S4 in the Jordanian market during a press conference held at the Sheraton Amman Al Nabil Hotel.