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Jordan, among the closest U.S. allies in the Middle East, hopes to get more donor aid to help ease the impact of regional turmoil and the Gaza war on its economy, officials say.
Jordan's Queen Rania offers path to peace in Middle East. ABC NEWS. September 25, 2024 at 2:24 PM. Queen Rania Al Abdullah has been one of Jordan's leaders since 1999, as the wife of King Abdullah ...
Jordan, [ a ] officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, [ b ] is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia. Jordan is bordered by Syria to the north, Iraq to the east, Saudi Arabia to the south, and Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories to the west. The Jordan River, flowing into the Dead Sea, is located along the country ...
In 2010, the India-Jordan trade volume stood at US$1.16 billion i.e. India's exports to Jordan stood at US$382 million in 2010 while imports were to the tune of US$783 million in 2010.' [ 184 ] Jordan is also a member of the Non-Aligned Movement and has thus forged close relations with India. Iraq.
On 21 April 2024, five rockets were fired from Zummar, Iraq towards the Kharab al-Jir base in Syria which houses US and coalition soldiers in the first major attack since early February. No US personnel were injured. The Syrian Observatory of Human Rights blamed the attack on the Islamic Resistance in Iraq.
September 10, 2024 at 1:55 AM. AMMAN (Reuters) - Polls opened on Tuesday in Jordan's first parliamentary elections under a new law aimed at diluting the strong impact of tribalism and bolstering ...
Iraqi Kurdish uprising (1982–1988) – 50,000–198,000 killed. 1991 Uprising in As Sulaymaniyah – 700–2,000 killed. Iraqi Kurdish Civil War (1994–1997) – 3,000 [82] –5,000 killed. 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq – several hundred killed (≈300) on the Kurdish front, at least 24 Peshmerga soldiers killed.
The Israel–Jordan peace treaty (formally the "Treaty of Peace Between the State of Israel and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan"), [Note 1] sometimes referred to as the Wadi Araba Treaty, [1] is an agreement that ended the state of war that had existed between the two countries since the 1948 Arab–Israeli War and established mutual diplomatic relations.