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Mussa Hattar

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
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and Jordan's King Abdullah II, left, at the Royal Palace in Amman, Jordan, on January 16, 2014. (AP/ Yousef Allan, Jordanian Royal Palace/ File)
March 18, 2021, 8:29 am
Jordan counts on support from Biden as it pushes back against Netanyahu
In delaying permission for PM to use airspace, Hashemite kingdom starts to reassert itself after keeping a low profile during Trump administration
By Mussa Hattar
A member of the veterinary staff carries a female Pitbull receiving treatment for a herniated disk at Pet Zone, a pet health center in the Jordanian capital Amman, on October 1, 2019. (Photo by Khalil MAZRAAWI / AFP)
December 23, 2019, 7:42 am
It’s not such a dog’s life for Jordan’s pampered pets
Despite economic woes, Jordanians are increasingly shelling out their hard-earned cash on house pets, as country sees rise of pet hotels
By Mussa Hattar
Iraq fans cheer during the FIFA World Cup 2022 and the 2023 AFC Asian Cup qualifying soccer match between Iraq and Iran in the Jordanian capital Amman on November 14, 2019. (Khalil MAZRAAWI / AFP)
November 15, 2019, 1:35 am
Iraqis celebrate soccer win against Iran as symbolic victory
Fans at Amman stadium wear black to honor those killed in Baghdad protests against Iranian interference, hail 2-1 triumph as respite from ‘bloodshed and fire’ back home
By Mussa Hattar
The border between Israel and Jordan in the Jordan valley area called Naharayim, or Baqura in Arabic, in northern Israel, October 22, 2018. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
October 24, 2019, 10:17 am
Jordanians say 25-year peace with Israel ‘cold and getting colder’
Many in the Hashemite kingdom still see the neighboring Jewish state as an enemy, and one that is not interested in regional peace
By Mussa Hattar
Jordanian protesters wave the national and Palestinian flags during a demonstration near the Israeli Embassy in the capital Amman in solidarity with the Palestinians on October 16, 2015. (Khalil Mazraawi/AFP)
July 28, 2019, 8:45 am
Trump’s peace plan rings alarm bells in Jordan
Analysts in Israel’s Palestinian-majority neighbor warn failure to create independent state in West Bank could ‘wipe out’ Jordanian identity
By Mussa Hattar
Lionesses rest in an enclosure on April 10, 2019, at the Al Ma'wa For Nature and Wildlife in Jerash, Jordan. (Khalil MAZRAAWI / AFP)
May 20, 2019, 11:18 am
Animals traumatized by Mideast conflicts find safe haven in Jordan
Dozens of bears and lions rescued from zoos in war-torn Syria, Iraq and the Gaza Strip undergo rehabilitation at Jerash wildlife sanctuary
By Mussa Hattar
Prince William (L) is greeted at Amman's Marka military airport by Jordanian Crown Prince Hussein bin Abdullah on June 24, 2018. Prince William arrived in Jordan at the start of a Middle East tour that will see him become the first British royal to pay official visits to both Israel and the Palestinian territories. (AFP PHOTO / KHALIL MAZRAAWI)
June 24, 2018, 4:54 pm
Prince Hussein, 23, Jordan’s fast-rising royal heir, hosts his UK counterpart
Groomed for leadership, the Western-educated trainee helicopter pilot has 1.4 million Instagram followers, is helping keep royal family relatively popular
By Mussa Hattar
Demonstrators wave Jordanian flags and hold up their lit mobile phones as they face Jordanian police officers during a protest near the prime minister's office in Amman, Jordan, on June 5, 2018. (AFP/Khalil Mazraawi)
June 9, 2018, 1:44 pm
Jordan faces tough economic path, after protests scupper tax hikes
Controversial legislation sparked some of the biggest demonstrations to hit the country in the past five years
By Mussa Hattar
In this Thursday, May 4, 2017 photo, a boy walks by graffiti of Palestinian flags with Arabic reading: "The flag is four colors that shine on the face of the sun" in the Bourj al-Barajneh Palestinian refugee camp in Beirut, Lebanon. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
June 1, 2017, 9:32 am
Palestinian refugees’ dreams of returning home fade
As time passes since 1948 and 1967 wars, frustration at entrenched status quo grows among those who fled and their descendants
By Mussa Hattar and Sarah Benhaida
Jordanian mourners carry the body of intelligence corporal Omar al-Hayari, one of the five Jordanian intelligence agents killed during a gun attack at the Palestinian refugee camp of Baqaa, on June 6, 2016, during his funeral in Salt, a town west of the capital Amman. (AFP/Khalil Mazraawi)
June 7, 2016, 2:52 am
Suspect held over Jordan attack in which 5 intelligence agents killed
Motive of attack in Palestinian refugee camp under investigation, but authorities suspect gunman was a jihadist
By Kamal Taha and Mussa Hattar
Jordanian students shout slogans on February 5, 2015 in the capital Amman during a rally against the Islamic State group and in reaction to the burning alive of Jordanian pilot Mu’ath al-Kaseasbeh by the group's militants. (AFP/Khalil Mazraawi)
February 6, 2015, 1:59 pm
Jordan vows to ‘eradicate’ Islamic State
FM Nasser Judeh says government is ‘upping the ante’; thousands take to streets in Amman to decry burning murder of pilot
By Mussa Hattar
Jordanian female supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood take part in a protest against Israeli police presence inside the Temple Mount compound, in Amman on November 7, 2014. (Photo credit:AFP/Khalil Mazraawi)
November 16, 2014, 6:22 am
Fearing backlash, Jordan asserts al-Aqsa custodianship
Temple Mount unrest is a threat to Hashemite regime’s legitimacy in the eyes of its subjects, pushing it to take tough stance against Israel
By Mussa Hattar
Illustrative photo of Jordanian police (photo credit: AP/Raad Adayleh)
November 14, 2014, 6:20 am
Jordan takes IS battle to Internet, mosques
Hashemite Kingdom combats Islamic extremism by cracking down on radical preachers, curbing Internet use
By Mussa Hattar
A Syrian refugee woman pushes a stroller at the Zaatari refugee camp, near the Jordanian border with Syria, on March 8, 2014. (AFP/Khalil Mazraawi)
March 16, 2014, 7:01 am
As Syrian war enters fourth year, refugees harbor little hope
Pessimism abounds in Jordan’s Zaatari refugee camp, where 100,000 Syrians see no way home and no end to civil war
By Mussa Hattar
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