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The political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood won a sizable share of seats in Parliament, though not enough to challenge the government's pro-Western tilt. An Islamist party that made opposition [...]

The Muslim Brotherhood has campaigned on opposition to the Gaza war, but analysts say it won't be as decisive a factor in parliamentary elections as high unemployment. Voters went to [...]

Byline: Rana F. Sweis, Emad Mekay and Lynsey Chutel Huda Omari sat outside a broker's office in Jordan for two days, waiting for her visa to make the annual hajj, [...]

Huda Omari sat outside a broker's office in Jordan for two days, waiting for her visa to make the annual hajj, or pilgrimage, to Saudi Arabia. In Egypt, Magda Moussa's […]

Byline: Rana F. Sweis A respected lawyer, she focused on the victims of domestic violence and also worked hard to change discriminatory laws. AMMAN, Jordan - Asma Khader, an internationally [...]

A respected lawyer, she focused on the victims of domestic violence and also worked hard to change discriminatory laws. AMMAN, Jordan -- Asma Khader, an internationally recognized advocate for human [...]

Jordanian officials had arrested 18 people earlier in April, accusing them of aiding a former crown prince to foment unrest. All but two were released Thursday. AMMAN, Jordan -- Sixteen [...]

The standoff between King Abdullah II and his half brother, Prince Hamzah, wasn't just palace intrigue. It hinted at Saudi meddling and highlighted wider tensions within Jordan's complex society. AMMAN, [...]

The government has accused King Abdullah II's half brother, Prince Hamzah, of undermining national security, and arrested several of his associates. AMMAN, Jordan -- King Abdullah II of Jordan broke [...]

The country's royal family said Prince Hamzah had now pledged his loyalty to King Abdullah II. The government banned news outlets and social media users from discussing the rare public [...]

Byline: Rana F. Sweis, Adam Rasgon and Patrick Kingsley A royal rift laid bare. Key figures arrested. Rumors of a failed coup attempt. An intense bout of palace intrigue has [...]

The royal house said King Abdullah II and his estranged half brother, Prince Hamzah, had agreed to mediation measures, easing worries about a destabilizing family feud. AMMAN, Jordan -- A [...]

A royal rift laid bare. Key figures arrested. Rumors of a failed coup attempt. An intense bout of palace intrigue has knocked Jordan's image as a reliable bulwark in a [...]

Those arrested included a member of the royal family and a longtime confidant of King Abdullah II. In a dramatic video, the country's former crown prince says he has been [...]

''As long as women are absent from the labor market, they are absent from the public sphere,'' one advocate said. AMMAN, Jordan -- Marwa Alomari's compassionate and patient style made [...]

Byline: Rana F. Sweis In Jordan, an unregulated microloan industry offers easy money. But with no way to repay loans, many women end up buried in debt, or in prison. [...]

In Jordan, an unregulated microloan industry offers easy money. But with no way to repay loans, many women end up buried in debt, or in prison. RUSSEIFA, Jordan -- Five [...]

Israelis see the step as a reflection of the dismal state of relations a quarter century after the treaty was reached. AMMAN, Jordan -- Jordan's king on Sunday reclaimed border [...]

The motive for the attack at Jerash, an archaeological site and tourist draw in northern Jordan, remained unknown. AMMAN, Jordan -- An assailant stabbed eight people at the popular archaeological [...]

MAFRAQ, Jordan -- Zina Satouf remembers seeing shadows in the street and nearly falling flat on her face.When she visited an ophthalmologist two years ago, he prescribed two kinds of [...]

JERUSALEM -- Under internal political pressure, King Abdullah II of Jordan said on Sunday that he was cutting off Israelis' free access to two tracts of land along the border [...]

AMMAN, Jordan -- The Syrian government celebrated the reopening on Monday of a vital border crossing with Jordan as a new sign of President Bashar al-Assad's reestablished control over much [...]

AMMAN, Jordan -- The government of Jordan announced on Thursday that it would withdraw a divisive tax bill after nationwide protests rocked the country, leading to the resignation of the [...]

AMMAN, Jordan -- Escalating economic pressures on Jordan threatened to turn into a political crisis on Monday, as the prime minister resigned amid nationwide protests against proposed tax and price [...]

AMMAN -- Vice President Mike Pence met with King Abdullah II of Jordan on Sunday, telling reporters afterward that they had ''agreed to disagree'' on the American recognition of Jerusalem [...]

Rula Quawas, a prominent academic and champion of women's advancement in Jordan who was removed as dean of the University of Jordan over a video project in which her female [...]

Byline: RANA F. SWEIS Rula Quawas, a prominent academic and champion of women's advancement in Jordan who was removed as dean of the University of Jordan over a video project [...]

A Jordanian soldier was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison on Monday for the deaths of three United States soldiers whom he shot at an air base [...]

AMMAN, JORDAN -- The last surviving animals in the Montazah Al-Morour Zoo in the war-ravaged Iraqi city of Mosul -- Lula, a bear, and Simba, a lion -- reached safety [...]

Byline: RANA F. SWEIS AMMAN, Jordan -- The last surviving animals in the Montazah Al-Morour Zoo in the war-ravaged Iraqi city of Mosul -- Lula, a bear, and Simba, a [...]

JERUSALEM -- The fragile treaty between the two former enemies was not even three years old when a Jordanian soldier went on a shooting rampage and killed seven Israeli schoolgirls [...]

AMMAN, Jordan -- For the dozens of Syrian and Iraqi refugees who gathered at the international airport in Amman, Jordan, to board flights to the United States early Monday morning, [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDMAFRAQ, Jordan -- Nisreen al-Najjar thought the worst was behind her family when it fled to Jordan from war-torn Homs in Syria. Then, two years later, though safe from [...]

AMMAN, Jordan -- The Islamic State claimed responsibility on Tuesday for a terrorist attack in the southern Jordanian city of Karak that killed 10 people, including the head of the [...]

KARAK, Jordan -- Gunmen involved in a rare terrorist attack in Jordan on Sunday had a large cache of weapons, explosives and suicide vests in the apartment where they had [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDAMMAN, Jordan -- Seven Jordanian security officers, a Canadian tourist and two Jordanian civilians were killed by gunmen in the southern city of Karak on Sunday, according to a [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDAMMAN, Jordan -- Some of the most extreme elements in Jordan made clear in recent weeks that Nahed Hattar should pay for a provocative cartoon he posted online depicting [...]

AMMAN, Jordan -- Members of the political arm of the opposition Muslim Brotherhood won seats in Jordan's Parliament in a symbolic comeback, and women increased their numbers in the legislature, [...]

AMMAN, Jordan -- At the headquarters of the Muslim Brotherhood, Ali Abu al-Sukkar's telephone would not stop ringing Tuesday. It was Election Day, the first time the Islamist organization had [...]

Byline: RANA F. SWEIS and SOMINI SENGUPTA AMMAN, Jordan -- In the middle of a roadless desert on the edge of Syria and Jordan, thousands of Syrian men, women and [...]

AMMAN, Jordan -- In the middle of a roadless desert on the edge of Syria and Jordan, thousands of Syrian men, women and children have been living for months in [...]

AMMAN, Jordan -- The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for a suicide attack that killed seven members of the Jordanian security forces and wounded 13 others on Tuesday at a [...]

AMMAN, Jordan -- Jordan sealed its last entry points for Syrian refugees on Tuesday after a suicide bomber detonated a car bomb in a no-man's land on the border, killing [...]

Byline: SOMINI SENGUPTA and RANA F. SWEIS AMMAN, Jordan -- Jordan's national census takers made something of a stark discovery earlier this year when they found that nearly a third [...]

AMMAN, Jordan -- Jordan's national census takers made something of a stark discovery earlier this year when they found that nearly a third of the country's 9.5 million residents are [...]

AMMAN, Jordan -- Three officers of the Jordanian intelligence service and two other employees of the service were killed on Monday in a Palestinian refugee camp near the capital, Amman, [...]

AMMAN, Jordan -- The Jordanian police closed down the headquarters of the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan on Wednesday, the group said in a statement. Warning that the closing would ''bring [...]

AMMAN, Jordan -- Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. held talks in Jordan on Wednesday with King Abdullah II on a variety of regional topics, including the fight against the [...]

AMMAN, Jordan -- King Abdullah II made his people an extraordinary promise last week: For every job the government offered Syrian refugees, it would create five jobs for Jordanians. But [...]

AMMAN, Jordan -- The deputy leader of the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan, Zaki Bani Rushaid, was released from prison on Monday after serving 13 months for criticizing the United Arab [...]