The horrific images of Moath al-Kasasbeh, the Jordanian pilot captured in December, being burned alive by members of Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is “barbaric, inhuman and condemned in the strongest terms”, the Muslim Judicial Council (MJC) said in a statement on Wednesday. Jordan hanged two Iraqi prisoners[…]
The Islamic State groupburned a captured Jordanian pilot to death in a cage, according to a purported video of the violence released Tuesday. The kingdom, which had vowed a swift and lethal response, executed two al-Qaida prisoners by hanging early Wednesday. The pilot’s gruesome death sparked outrage and anti-Islamic State[…]
The wife of slain Japanese hostage Kenji Goto said Monday that she was devastated but proud of her husband, who was beheaded by Islamic State extremists. In a statement issued through the British-based journalist group Rory Peck Trust, Rinko Jogo requested privacy for her family as they deal with their loss,[…]
Japanese officials were tightlipped Wednesday as secret talks in Jordan sought to secure the freedom of a Japanese journalist and a Jordanian pilot captured by Islamic State extremists and purportedly threatened with death within 24 hours. The global efforts to free Japanese freelance journalist Kenji Goto and Jordanian Lt. Mu’ath al-Kaseasbeh[…]
Jordan’s military has confirmed that one of its pilots was captured by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group after his plane went down in Syria, official news agency Petra said. “During a mission on Wednesday morning conducted by several Jordanian Air Force planes against hideouts of[…]
Pro-Palestine activist Marthie Momberg has returned safely to South Africa, after she was denied access to Israel from the Jordan border and interrogated for hours by Israeli officials. Representing Kairos Southern Africa, Momberg was on her way to the annual Kairos Palestine International Conference in Bethlehem when she was barred[…]
Israel has told Jordan it has no plans to change the status quo at Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa Mosque compound by allowing Jews to pray there, against a backdrop of continued unrest in occupied East Jerusalem. Benjamin Netanyahu called Jordan’s King Abdullah on Thursday to reassure his commitment to protecting Jerusalem’s holy[…]
A spokesman for Jordan’s mission to the United Nations says his country will request an emergency U.N. Security Council meeting on behalf of the Palestinians, who have written to the council president about “dangerously escalating tensions” in east Jerusalem. Laith Ibrahim Obeidat confirmed the request in a message Monday and[…]
Advocacy group Human Rights Watch accused Jordan Thursday of refusing entry to, or forcibly deporting, Palestinian refugees escaping Syria in what it called a defiance of the country’s international obligations. In a report released in Amman, the New York-based group said Jordan has officially banned their entry since January 2013[…]
Demonstrators clashed with Jordanian security forces as hundreds attempted to storm the Israeli embassy late Wednesday in Amman in protest of ongoing Israeli military strikes in the Gaza Strip. Anti-riot police clashed with some 300 leftist protestors marching toward the Israeli diplomatic mission in west Amman. About 10 rioters broke[…]
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