Jordanian border guards have killed five people as they approached the country’s border from war-torn Syria, the army said on Sunday. An army statement said that in an incident in the previous 72 hours, nine cars had first approached the border from At-Tanaf, a Syrian town where US special forces are training Syrian rebels to … Read more
A Jordanian army ambulance pulled up at a makeshift clinic a few hundred metres from a desert border camp where tens of thousands of Syrian refugees are trapped in no man’s land. A paramedic clambered out, carrying an emaciated boy around two years old. “Whose child is this?” he shouted as a border guard covered … Read more
Ten people were killed and 34 were wounded Sunday in what a Jordanian official called a “cowardly terrorist attack.” After firing at police officers at two locations, gunmen moved into an ancient castle popular with tourists in the city of Karak, Jordan’s Public Service Directorate said. Security forces surrounded the castle and an hourslong standoff … Read more