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Archives: Jordan
With Fall of Aleppo, will a Russo-Iranian Middle East challenge Trump?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - On Thursday, the Syrian government announced that the last of those who wanted to be evacuated from the East Aleppo pocket had been…
Arab nationalist press Reacts to Erdogan’s Crackdown with cries of “Dictator!”
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan's firing of some 50,000 people, including educators, bureaucrats, police and military personnel, in the wake of the failed July…
CIA Arms For Syria Sold by Jordan Spies on Black Market For Terrorists
Jo Ankier, Elliot Hill and Mark Sovel | (TheLipTV) | - - "Weapons sent by the CIA to Jordan for Syrian rebels were stolen by Jordanian intelligence operatives and sold to arms…
Beset by Loneliness and Memories, Syrian Refugees Struggle even in Safe Spaces
By Silvia Boarini | (Inter Press Service) | - - ZARQa, Jordan (IPS) - Emelline Mahmoud Ilyas is an outgoing 35-year-old mother of three from Syria. Sitting in a community centre in…
Wars targeting Children: 20 mn Homeless, 300K Conscripted & now Mass Abductions by ISIL
By Beatriz Ciordia | (Inter Press Service) | - - UNITED NATIONS (IPS) - Whether in Palestine, Ukraine or Somalia, wars result in millions of children threatened by the brutality of armed…
Syrian Refugees Blocked, Stranded in Jordan Desert
Human Rights Watch | - - (Beirut) – Jordanian authorities have severely restricted informal border crossings in the eastern part of the country since late March, 2015, stranding hundreds of Syrians in…
Richest Countries Bomb among World’s Poorest: Yemen already a Forgotten War
VICE News | (Video) | - "For more than six weeks, nine countries led by Saudi Arabia have been carrying out airstrikes on Yemen, the Arab world's poorest nation. Whole neighborhoods have…
‘American Terrorist’: Middle East reacts to Murder of 3 Muslim-American Students in N Carolina
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) - If American mass media seemed reluctant to cover the murder of three Muslims students at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill as a hate…
US Commander: Death of Jordan Pilot Turning Point in ISIL Fight
ABC News | - United Arab Emirates joins Jordan in fight against ISIS after the horrific death of the pilot. ABC News: "Gen. John Allen Says Death of Jordanian Pilot Could Be…
Is ISIL’s ‘Shock and Awe’ more Awe-ful because One Victim?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) - The Daesh (ISIL or ISIS) burning of a captured Jordanian pilot alive produced justified revulsion globally, resulting in the terrorist organization being termed "barbarous" and…
Angry Jordanian Crowds Rally over ISIL Murder of Pilot, but some blame US, King
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) - Jordanian protesters came out in the thousands on Tuesday to protest the gruesome murder by Daesh (ISIL, ISIL) of a captured Jordanian pilot, Muath al-Kasasbeh.…
Did Drought and Climate Change cause Middle Eastern States to Collapse in 2014?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) -- The Middle East, from North Africa to Afghanistan, has seen an unusual number of governments collapse in recent years. Libya, Iraq, Syria, and Yemen have…
Leftist Jordanians protest expected gas deal with Israel
BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Dozens of protesters marched in the Jordanian capital of Amman on Friday to denounce a gas deal with Israel that is expected to be passed by the end of…
West Only has Money for Bombs? 60,000 Child Laborers in Jordan as Syrian Refugees struggle to Survive
AMMAN | (IRIN) | - Jordan is straining under the weight of its over 600,000 Syrian refugees, with government officials and aid agencies warning of dwindling resources and capacity to respond to the…
Humanitarian Crisis: Health Care and Jordan’s 600,000 Syrian Refugees
By Katy Montoya I was scrambling to take notes when the First Lieutenant of the Jordanian Security Forces joined my conversation with security personnel in one of the small offices of Ruba’a…
Shock & Awe In Syria: It never Works
By Juan Cole The London pan-Arab daily "Hayat" [Life] reports this morning on the air strikes conducted on ISIL positions in Raqqah, Syria, by the United States and several Arab allies. The…
Middle East “Allies” decline to Commit Forces, Resources against ISIL
By Juan Cole US Secretary of State John Kerry's meeting in Jedda with ten Middle Eastern foreign ministers produced a communique on Friday, but little more. The regional states promised to do…
Egypt, Syria, Libya . . . . What is the Appeal of Phoney Elections in the Middle East?
By Juan Cole The world has been treated to a whole series of "elections" in the Middle East recently. Iraq had parliamentary elections, Libya's parliament voted for a new prime minister, and…