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A military prosecutor says a young Jordanian activist has been found guilty of "harming the king's dignity" for burning a street poster of the monarch and has been sentenced to two years in prison.
A Jordanian prosecutor says the country's military court has freed 22 suspected Islamists on bail as a goodwill gesture.
Jordan's king said Wednesday he will give lawmakers a say in appointing the Cabinet, the latest reform aimed at heading off Arab Spring-style protests in the tiny, U.S.-allied nation.
Jordan's King Abdullah II designated a well known international judge as his prime minister Monday, a royal palace statement said, replacing a premier who ran afoul of reformers.
Jordan's King Abdullah II, one of Israel's few remaining close allies in the Muslim world, said in remarks obtained Monday that the uprisings sweeping Arab nations have put the Jewish state in a difficult position. He also hotly rejected the notion that his country should take in Palestinians as a substitute for the creation of a state for them.
A Jordanian human rights group found no clear evidence to support allegations of rape made by several female workers at one of the country's largest garment-makers exporting to the United States, according to an investigative report obtained by The Associated Press on Thursday.
Jordan's King Abdullah II welcomed proposed constitutional amendments on Sunday, but critics rebuked the changes as insufficient.
Jordan's Islamist opposition leader Friday issued a rare public denunciation of the country's feared security apparatus, accusing it controlling government policies and seeking to limit free expression.
Inside a filthy detention center in Damascus, eight or nine interrogators repeatedly bludgeoned a skinny teenager whose hands were bound and who bore a bullet wound on the left side of his chest. They struck his head, back, feet and genitals until he was left on the floor of a cell, bleeding from his ears and crying out for his mother and father to help him.
Jordan's King Abdullah II endorsed a Cabinet reshuffle on Saturday in the wake of scandals and resignations that have tainted the country's prime minister and ignited calls for his resignation.
Jordan's King Abdullah II said Tuesday it may take "at least two or three years" to put in place an elected government to replace a royally appointed one.
The Gulf Cooperation Council's surprisingly warm welcome of energy-poor Jordan's application the ranks of the predominantly oil rich bloc of nations is the latest reflection of how the widespread protests in the Arab nations are reshaping the political landscape in the volatile Mideast, analysts said.
Jordan's counterterrorism forces have arrested the brother of an al-Qaida triple agent who blew himself up in a CIA outpost in Afghanistan in 2009, a Jordanian security official and two Islamist leaders said Tuesday.
A police official says 70 Islamic hardliners have been arrested for suspected armed attacks that left 83 policemen wounded.
A Jordanian forensics official says a protester who set himself on fire outside the prime minister's office last week has died of his wounds.
Jordan has released four jailed members of a radical Islamist group that had threatened to stage a mass demonstration over their detentions, the group's leader said Tuesday.
A Jordanian man set himself on fire Thursday outside the prime minister's office in the first such act since political unrest hit the country in January.
A Jordanian prosecutor says a Yemeni man has been charged with disturbing public safety by threatening to blow himself up at an Islamist party office with what turned out to be a fake explosive belt.
A man who appeared drunk was arrested after threatening to set off what turned out to be a fake explosive belt in the headquarters of Jordan's largest opposition group on Monday, officials said.
Jordanians demanding democratic reforms protested in the capital for the 10th street week following Friday's Muslim prayers, defying an edict by the kingdom's religious leaders not to demonstrate.
Jordan's prime minister promised Sunday to introduce laws some time this year that would give Jordanians a greater say in politics, but angry opposition leaders said the pace of reform is too slow.
Seeking to allay Israeli anger, Jordan reassured its neighbor Wednesday that a soldier who killed seven Israeli schoolgirls in 1997 will serve out his life sentence.
Some of America's Mideast allies have been pressing the Obama administration to go easy on Egypt's embattled leader and allow for a gradual transition of power.
Unrest ripping across the Arab world is putting pressure on Jordan's King Abdullah II, a key U.S. ally who has been making promises of reform in recent days in an apparent attempt to quell domestic discontent over economic degradation and lack of political freedoms.
Jordanians should be able to elect their prime minister and other government officials rather than having them appointed, the powerful Islamist opposition said Tuesday in a rare challenge to Jordan's political system.
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