First Independent Mena Newspaper
Jordanian monarch Abdullah II Monday paid a historic visit to Baghdad after nearly 11 years in a move that heralds Iraq’s return to the international in the wake of the Islamic State group (ISIS) defeat in 2017. King Abdullah II, AFP reports met with President Barham Saleh in Baghdad including Prime Minister Adel Abdel Mahdi. […]
Some details of the talks between King Abdullah II of Jordan and some leaders in the US congress in January have surfaced indicating the king admitted that Jordanian and British special forces were active in Libya and that he called for overcoming the ideological differences of the cold war era and religious differences and to […]
The proposed plan by Jordan’s King Abdullah, welcomed by the Israeli government, to install surveillance cameras in Jerusalem has been rejected by the Palestinians as they fear that it will increase Israel’s control over the area. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu believes that Tel Aviv “has an interest in cameras being deployed everywhere on the […]
A coalition of rebel groups in Syria have made major advances on government held areas thereby getting closer to Jordan and Damascus. The developments will be of huge concern to Assad and King Abdullah especially regarding that the hardline extremists were among those leading the offensive charge. Rebels backed by the Al-Nusra Front, an Al-Qaeda […]
The working visit King Abdullah of Jordan paid to Morocco and the warmth welcome he received from his host King Mohammed VI showed clearly the special ties existing between the two Kingdoms, both among the strongest US allies in the Arab world. The two leaders held private talks. Yet, some political analysts and diplomatic sources […]