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Topic: Jordan-Syria relations

April 27, 2013
1:50 am

US President Barack Obama answers a question regarding the ongoing situation in Syria during his meeting with Jordan's King Abdullah II, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Friday. (photo credit: AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama: Use of chemical weapons by Syria would cross a ‘red line’

In first remarks since Washington’s claims of sarin gas attacks, president says introduction of such weaponry would change ‘calculus’ of US military involvement

April 23, 2013
4:14 pm

Syrian President Bahsar Assad, center, shakes hands with a member of Iran's parliamentary committee on national interest and foreign policy, in Damascus, Syria, Monday, April 22, 2013 (photo credit: AP/SANA)

Hezbollah involvement in Syria called ‘war declaration’

Of Syria’s neighbors, Jordan is the weakest link, a leading Arab columnist writes

By Elhanan Miller

April 18, 2013
3:25 pm

Syrian President Bashar Assad in an image from video broadcast on Syrian state television Wednesday, April 17, 2013 (photo credit: AP)

‘Israel will wage the next gulf war’

Assad’s latest TV appearance, threatening Jordan and the West, irks Arab commentators

By Elhanan Miller

April 17, 2013
9:43 pm

Members of the Syrian opposition meet in Istanbul, March 2013 (photo credit: AP)

‘Israeli diplomats met with Syrian oppositionists’

Foreign Ministry declines comment on report that Israel appealed to rebels to help set up a buffer zone along border

By Elhanan Miller

March 29, 2013
1:24 pm

An instructor teaches Syrian rebels to use a rocket-propelled grenade launcher near Idlib, Syria, in March. (photo credit: AP/Muhammed Muheisen)

Syrian rebels capture key town near Jordan border

Dael, in Daraa province where the 2-year-old uprising began, is considered a gateway to Damascus

By AP and Times of Israel staff

February 27, 2013
2:38 pm

Newly arrived Syrian refugees wait for their turn to receive a mattress, blankets and other supplies, and to be assigned to tents, at the Zaatari Syrian refugees camp in Mafraq, near the Syrian border with Jordan, Monday, Jan. 28, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Mohammad Hannon)

Jordan sees new surge in Syrians fleeing civil war

3,000 refugees crossing border every night; kingdom could have as many as half a million Syrian refugees by the end of March

February 19, 2013
2:55 pm

Tunisian Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali, right, is pictured with Ennahda party leader Rached El Ghannouchi at the opening of a meeting with representatives of all Tunisian political parties, to see if there is sufficient support for his solution to end the country's ongoing political crisis in Carthage, outside Tunis, Monday, Feb. 18, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Hassene Dridi)

Assad as confident as ever

Tunisian PM fails to form technocrat government and Iran’s Supreme Leader meets reformists

By Elhanan Miller

February 11, 2013
6:01 pm

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad gestures as he speaks at the Opera House in central Damascus, Syria, Sunday, Jan. 6, 2013 (Photo credit: AP/SANA)

Syria will remain heart of Arabism, defiant Assad says

Jordanians visit Damascus to express support for embattled regime, tell president spilled blood will ‘write Syria’s history’

By Aaron Kalman

January 11, 2013
12:44 am

Jordanian Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour, November 28, 2011 (photo credit: AP)

Jordanian PM: If we were to let in Palestinians from Syria, Israel would try to send more of them our way

Hashemite kingdom, which holds general elections in two weeks, has closed its borders to ‘brethren’ fleeing Assad, fearing major influx

By Elhanan Miller

January 9, 2013
10:05 am

A civilian looks at a destroyed home in Aleppo, Syria, Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Andoni Lubaki)

Jordan turns away Palestinian refugees fleeing violence in Syria

‘Jordan is not obligated to pay a political price for the Syrian crisis,’ government spokesman explains

By Elhanan Miller

December 31, 2012
5:52 pm

Jordan detains 4 Syrian soldiers near border

Unclear whether the men were on their way in or out of Jordan; arrests comes days after neighboring armies clash

By AP and Elhanan Miller

December 30, 2012
6:30 pm

Syrian and Jordanian armies reportedly clash on border

Witnesses describe exchange as most significant skirmish since start of Syrian revolution

By Elhanan Miller

December 3, 2012
4:02 pm

Benjamin Netanyahu, left, meeting with Jordan's King Abdullah II in 2010. (photo credit: Avi Ohayon/GPO/Flash90)

Israel asked Jordan for approval to bomb Syrian chemical weapon sites

From the web The Atlantic: Jeffrey Goldberg reports on Israel efforts to monitor and prepare to deal with Syria’s weapons of mass destruction

October 22, 2012
12:02 pm

Jordanian flags flying in Ramallah in 2008 (photo credit: Michal Fattal/Flash90)

In first, Jordanian soldier killed in clash at Syrian border

Casualty comes as Amman prevents armed militants from crossing into Syria

October 22, 2012
5:55 am

Downtown Amman (photo credit: Wikimedia commons/File)

Jordanian authorities say terror suspects stockpiled Syrian rockets, planned to target Western embassies

Salafi extremists make up half of busted terrorist cell; armed men crossing border from Syria kill Jordanian soldier

By AP and Yoel Goldman