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A Palestinian child wounded in Israeli bombardment is brought to a hospital in Deir el-Balah, Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Source: President Mahmoud Abbas cancels planned meeting with Biden after hospital strike

By Najib Jobain, Samya Kullab, Raiv Nessman and Matthew Lee - Associated Press

Attarat power plant is seen Wednesday, June 7, 2023, some 100 kilometers (60 miles) south of Amman, Jordan. The $2.1 billion Attarat power plant that began officially operating on May 26 has fueled tensions between Beijing and the resource-poor kingdom and set off an international legal battle. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh)

A troubled new power plant leaves Jordan in debt to China, raising concerns over Beijing’s influence

By Isabel Debre - Associated Press

Jordan's Crown Prince Hussein and Saudi Rajwa Alseif wave to well-wishers during their wedding ceremonies in Amman, Jordan, on June 1, 2023. Their royal wedding represented the pinnacle of the monarchy’s efforts to establish Hussein as the face of Jordan’s next generation, a future king who can modernize the country, slash the red tape and set loose the talents of its bulging young population. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser, File)

Crown Prince Hussein is meant to embody Jordan’s future, but his generation faces bleak prospects

By Isabel Debre - Associated Press

A poster with pictures of, from right, King Abdullah II, Crown Prince Hussein, Saudi architect Rajwa Alseif and Queen Rania, is hanged at the front of a building in the capital Amman, Jordan, Wednesday, May 31, 2023. Crown Prince Hussein and Saudi architect Rajwa Alseif are to be married on Thursday at a palace wedding in Jordan, a Western-allied monarchy that has been a bastion of stability for decades as Middle East turmoil has lapped at its borders. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

Jordan’s royal wedding day gets underway with surprise arrival of Britain’s William and Kate

By Isabel Debre - Associated Press

Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz, speaks during a meeting with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin at the Pentagon, Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021, in Washington. Israel's defense minister met with Jordan's King Abdullah II in Amman on Tuesday, March 29, 2022, in what both sides said was an effort to maintain calm in Jerusalem ahead of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Israel defense chief, Jordan’s king discuss Ramadan calm

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Members of the Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham, a Sunni Islamist militant group, wave the Taliban flags as they celebrate the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, in the city of Idlib, Friday, Aug. 20, 2021. The Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan is giving radical Islamic groups from Syria and the Gaza Strip to Pakistan and West Africa reason to celebrate. They see America's violence-marred exit from Afghanistan as an opportunity to regroup and reassert their ideology. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

Taliban success in Afghanistan seen as boost for extremists

By Zeina Karam - Associated Press

Jordanian police beat and arrest protesting teachers

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FILE - In this Nov. 13, 2015, file photo, tourists pass through the Arch of Hadrian, built during the Roman Empire, and the South Gate of the well preserved Ancient Roman city of Gerasa, in the city of Jerash, Jordan. Jordanian officials say an attacker has stabbed a number of tourists and their tour guide at a popular archaeological site in northern Jordan. The wounded were taken to a hospital and the attacker was arrested. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser, FIle)

Attacker stabs 8 at popular Jordanian tourist site

By OMAR AKOUR and MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH - Associated Press

This undated photo provided by Netflix shows a scene from the series &quot;Jinn.&quot; By global Netflix standards, its first original Arabic series “Jinn” hardly pushes the envelope. But when the show debuted worldwide last week, many Jordanians were shocked and appalled by a program that they say violates the country’s conservative norms. The outrage has shaken Jordan’s self-image as a bastion of tolerance in a turbulent region and reflects a cultural gap between the country’s Western-allied ruling elite and deeply conservative Muslim public. (Netflix via AP)

Netflix’s first Arabic original sparks backlash on home turf

By Laure Van Ruymbeke and Isabel Debre - Associated Press

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo talks to reporters on his plane on his way to the Middle East, Monday, Jan. 7, 2019. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/Pool via AP)

Mike Pompeo starts Middle East visit to ramp up pressure on Iran

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Daughters of 9/11 victim visit Guantanamo Bay

By CYNTHIA SIMISON - Associated Press

Russia's special presidential envoy to Syria Alexander Lavrentiev, second left, and Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Vershinin, left, meet with Lebanese Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri, right, at his house in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, July 26, 2018. The Russian delegation is in Lebanon to discuss Russian proposals for organizing the return of Syrian refugees from Lebanon and Syria to their homes in Syria. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Some Syrian refugees oppose Russian repatriation push

By FARES AKRAM and ZEINA KARAM - Associated Press

In this Thursday, Feb. 15, 2018 photo, Amer Othman, 57, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Amman, Jordan. Othman's life turned upside down in an instant: The Ohio entrepreneur who came to the United States 38 years ago and won praise for helping revive once-blighted downtown Youngstown, was arrested during what he thought was another check-in with immigration authorities. He was detained for two weeks and deported to his native Jordan. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh)

Ohio businessman, deported after 38 years in US, vows return

By KARIN LAUB - Associated Press

The bittersweet life for one Syrian refugee in Maryland

By CHRIS MILLER - Associated Press

In this photo released by the Royal Malaysian Navy, the U.S guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain is seen after a collision, off Johor, Malaysia, Monday, Aug. 21, 2017. A number of U.S. sailors were missing after a collision between the USS John S. McCain and a tanker early Monday east of Singapore, the second accident involving a ship from the Navy's 7th Fleet in the Pacific in two months. (Royal Malaysian Navy via AP)

Adm. John Richardson, Navy chief, orders probe into Pacific fleet after collisions

By Lolita C. Baldor, Annabelle Liang and Stephen Wright - Associated Press

Jordanian parliament repeals ‘marry the rapist’ clause

By Alice Su - Associated Press

Zakaria al-Jawadah, right, the father of Mohammed Mohammed al-Jawawdeh, a 17-year-old Jordanian, who was killed on Sunday evening by an Israeli security guard who said he was attacked by him with a screwdriver, holds back his tears at a funeral tent in Amman, Jordan, Monday, July 24, 2017. The deadly shooting, that killed two Jordanians at a residential building used by Israeli embassy staff in Jordan, has further complicated Israeli government efforts to find a way out of an escalating crisis over the Holy Land's most contested shrine. (AP Photo/Raad Adeleh)

Israel Embassy shooting in Jordan complicates shrine crisis

By ARON HELLER and KARIN LAUB - Associated Press

Relatives and friends bury the body of Khadeer Hassan, who was killed during fighting between Iraqi security forces and Islamic State militants, on the western side of Mosul, Iraq, Saturday, March 25, 2017. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

US command: Mosul airstrikes were at the request of Iraq

By SINAN SALAHEDDIN - Associated Press

FILE - This May 8, 2014 file photo shows Emirates passenger planes at Dubai airport in United Arab Emirates. The U.S. government is temporarily barring passengers on certain flights originating in eight other countries from bringing most types of electronics in their carry-on luggage. A U.S. official tells The Associated Press that the ban beginning Tuesday, March 21, 2017, affects airports in 10 cities of Cairo in Egypt; Amman in Jordan; Kuwait City in Kuwait; Casablanca in Morocco; Doha in Qatar; Riyadh and Jeddah in Saudi Arabia; Istanbul in Turkey; and Abu Dhabi and Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. in the Middle East, North Africa and Turkey. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili, File)

The Latest: Royal Jordanian to enforce ban starting Friday

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FILE - In this Monday, Sept. 26, 2016, file photo, relatives of Jordanian writer Nahed Hattar hold up signs protesting his death, in front of Jordanian Prime Ministry in Amman, Jordan. Nahad Hattar, the writer, had been on trial for posting a cartoon deemed offensive to Islam on social media when an assailant killed him outside the courthouse. The shooter was a former mosque prayer leader motivated by anger over the cartoon, officials said at the time. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh)

Jordan hangs 10 for attacks linked to Islamic extremism

By Karin Laub - Associated Press