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​People gather after Friday prayers during a protest in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza, in Amman, Jordan, on April 4, 2025.
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Jordan arrests 16 accused terrorists

Jordanian authorities announced on Wednesday the arrest of 16 people accused of planning terrorist attacks inside Jordan. The country’s security services say the suspects had been under surveillance since 2021, and half a dozen of them were reportedly members of the Muslim Brotherhood, a transnational Islamist organization.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands as they make joint statements to the press at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem on Feb. 16, 2025.
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Gaza: The battle of the plans

When it comes to the future of Gaza, the only thing regional players agree on is that they don’t agree.

President Donald Trump meets with Jordan's King Abdullah in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, on Feb. 11, 2025.
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Israel-Hamas ceasefire may hold. Trump’s Gaza plan? Not so much

After some uncertainty earlier this week, phase one of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire seems to be holding even as Donald Trump plans to press forward with his Gaza plan. On Thursday, Hamas promised to release three Israeli hostages, as planned, with Israel set to return Palestinian prisoners in return.

President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Jordan's King Abdullah attend a meeting in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, on Feb. 11, 2025. ​
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Trump and Jordan talk Gaza, ceasefire hinges on hostage release

King Abdullah II of Jordan visited US President Donald Trump at the White House on Tuesday to discuss Gaza’s post-war future, including Trump’s plan to relocate some 2.1 million Palestinians to other countries in the Middle East.

​Demonstrators take part in a march in support of Palestinians in Gaza and to salute the slain Jordanian who shot and killed three Israeli civilians, according to the Israeli authorities, at the Allenby Bridge border crossing in the occupied West Bank, in Amman, Jordan September 8, 2024.
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Israel’s Jordan and Lebanon borders see new security threats

A Jordanian gunman on Sunday killed three Israeli guards at the Allenby Bridge, the border crossing between the West Bank and Jordan.

​PA via Reuters The Princess of Wales attends Trooping the Colour, London.
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​Israel's Iron Dome anti-missile system intercepts rockets launched from Lebanon towards Israel over the Israeli Lebanese border, as seen from northern Israel, April 12, 2024.
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Iran strikes Israel. How will Netanyahu respond?

On Saturday, Iran launched some 300 drones and missiles at Israel in retaliation for Israel’s April 1 bombing of the Iranian consulate in Syria.

​President Joe Biden attends the return of the remains of the three slain US soldiers — Sgt. Breonna Alexsondria Moffett, Sgt. William Jerome Rivers, and Sgt. Kennedy Ladon Sanders — at Dover Air Force Base on Friday.
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US strikes back after deadly drone attack

Nearly a week after a drone attack killed three American service members in Jordan, the US retaliated late Friday by launching strikes against more than 85 targets in Syria and Iraq. The Pentagon blames the Iran-backed Islamic Resistance in Iraq for the drone attack.

US-Iran tensions escalate after deadly drone attack
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US-Iran tensions escalate after deadly drone attack

Ian Bremmer's Quick Take: The Middle East war continuing to expand as we have been convinced it would. This weekend, really the nightmare scenario for the Americans that given all of the Iranian proxy attacks against shipping and against US troops in the region, that eventually they would get through and kill some. And that is exactly what happened. Three American servicemen killed, dozens injured, and now the Americans have to respond. That response will almost certainly be against Iranian forces to some degree directly.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping attend a reception at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia March 21, 2023.
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What We're Watching: Russia strikes Ukraine amid dueling wartime trips, Boris Johnson’s ‘Partygate’ showdown, Israeli settlements U-turn

Xi-Putin doozy; Kishida in Kyiv; Could this be the end for Boris Johnson?; Israeli government’s settlement policy shift