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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 489

Hashemite Kingdom

Crown Prince Hussein of Jordan recites the call to prayer as he cradles his new baby daughter Iman at a hospital in Amman, Jordan, August 3, 2024. (Screen capture: X/US Embassy of Jordan in Washington, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
August 4, 2024, 10:51 am
Jordan’s King Abdullah welcomes first grandchild in Amman
Princess Rajwa, 30, gives birth to baby girl Iman, a year after marrying king’s heir and oldest son Hussein; Jordanian law precludes women from inheriting Hashemite throne
By OMAR AKOUR
A poster with pictures of Jordan's Crown Prince Hussein and his fiancee, Saudi architect Rajwa Alseif hangs at the front of a building in Amman, Jordan, May 30, 2023. (Nasser Nasser/AP)
May 31, 2023, 11:08 pm
An architect and a crown prince — the bride and groom in Jordan’s royal wedding
Al Hussein bin Abdullah II, 28, heir to the Hashemite Kingdom, is set to marry Saudi aristocrat Rajwa Alseif, 29, on Thursday
By AP
Jordan's Prince Hamzah Bin Al-Hussein, in 2015. (Khalil Mazraawi/AFP)
April 3, 2022, 7:35 pm
A year after alleged plot, Jordan’s Crown Prince Hamzah gives up royal title
In letter posted on Twitter, King Abdullah II’s half-brother says his values ‘are not in line with approaches, trends and modern methods of our institutions’
By AP
Jordanian security forces stand on guard as protesters wave Jordanian flags and chant slogans during a demonstration near the Israeli embassy in the capital Amman on July 28, 2017. (AFP Photo/Khalil Mazraawi)
April 8, 2021, 8:11 pm
Jordan ‘coup’ no danger to Israel, but simmering discontent with king may be
Behind the palace intrigue between Abdullah and his half-brother are real frustrations among Jordanians toward a regime that Jerusalem sees as a key security bulwark
By Lazar Berman
Illustrative: A Jordanian honor guard stands for review at the Royal Palace, in Amman, Jordan, March 2, 2020. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh)
April 6, 2021, 10:52 pm
Smoke and shadows in Amman: What we know about the alleged Jordanian plot
News of security crackdown in Hashemite Kingdom cracked open tensions in the monarchy and raised questions about the source of the palace turmoil
By Mussa Hattar
Jordan's King Abdullah II and Crown Prince Hussein (R) arrive for the opening parliamentary session in the capital Amman on November 10, 2019, as Jordan reasserted its control over land enclaves on the border with Israel. (Khalil Mazraawi/AFP)
April 6, 2021, 3:45 pm
Jordan orders media ban, reframes ‘wicked plot’ as family feud
After harshly criticizing country’s leaders while under house arrest, Prince Hamzah pledged his loyalty to the royal family Monday in a sudden change of tune
By AFP
Samer Libdeh
August 8, 2017, 2:47 pm
Samer Libdeh
Jordan’s retrograde leadership must go
The Hashemites are radicalizing their citizens and standing in the way of peace
US President Donald Trump (R) shakes hands with King Abdullah II of Jordan in the Oval Office at the White House as First Lady Melania Trump and Queen Rania look on in Washington, DC, on April 5, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / NICHOLAS KAMM)
May 16, 2017, 1:31 pm
Trump, accused of passing intel to Russians, to call Jordan’s Abdullah
Contact comes amid speculation as to identity of Mideast country whose agent may have been compromised by US president
By Sue Surkes
Mithqal al-Fayez, painted for the family from a 1920s black and white photo. (Courtesy)
September 3, 2016, 4:49 pm
How Jordan’s ‘sheikh of sheikhs’ negotiated with Zionists, founded a kingdom
Israeli pens first biography of Mithqal al-Fayiz, the tribal leader who put the Hashemites on the Jordanian throne — a Lawrence of Arabia-esque epic about a desert nomad
By Dov Lieber
Jordan's King Abdullah (left), pictured with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on a visit to Ramallah in November, 2011. (Issam Rimawi/Flash90)
June 4, 2016, 3:31 am
Ramallah fumes at Jordanian meddling in question of Abbas’s successor
Palestinian sources say Amman officials have met with several possible candidates to lead the Palestinians
By Avi Issacharoff
Illustrative: The Jordanian Parliament. (Jordan Parliament official)
May 29, 2016, 5:02 pm
King of Jordan dissolves parliament, appoints new PM
Abdullah charges Hani Mulki, who once headed committee for negotiations with Israel, with leading kingdom into next elections
By Dov Lieber
Syrian refugees gather outside their embassy waiting to apply for passports or to renew their old ones in Amman, Jordan, on September 15, 2015. (AP/Raad Adayleh)
April 18, 2016, 11:07 pm
Jordan says 50,000 Syrians stranded on border
Fearing jihadist infiltration, Hashemite Kingdom has increased security checks on asylum seekers fleeing bloody civil war
By AFP
Orthodox Christians hold candles as worshipers gather around the Edicule at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, traditionally believed to be the burial place of Jesus Christ, during the ceremony of the Holy Fire in Jerusalem's Old City, April 7, 2007. (Nati Shohat /Flash90)
April 12, 2016, 12:46 am
Jordan’s king to help pay for facelift at Jesus’s tomb
Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulcher to stay open during renovation, set to begin next month and run through 2017
By Sue Surkes
Circassian guards pose for a photograph outside Basman Palace, in Amman, Jordan, January 11, 2016 (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
January 30, 2016, 9:30 am
Jordan royals’ Circassian guards a symbol of thriving minority
A rare look at the deeply traditional order that has served Hashemite kings for almost a century
By Sam McNeil
King Abdullah II of Jordan addresses the UN General Assembly in New York on September 28, 2015 (screen capture: YouTube)
September 28, 2015, 7:50 pm
Jordan’s king: We won’t allow threat to Arab character of Jerusalem
Abdullah tells UNGA that extremist groups like IS have caused ‘a third world war,’ to which ‘we must respond with equal intensity’
By ToI Staff and AFP
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