Jordan News

Private deal reportedly struck to see Jordan take place of Saudi Arbia for a two-year term starting in January following Saudi's unprecedented rejection of the seat

An MP in Jordan has been charged with attempted murder after trying to shoot another politican with an AK-47 during a session in parliament.

Four tiny Syrian children sit in a row outside the reception shed. They watch Zaatari refugee camp bustle around them as they eat the emergency food rations handed out on arrival.

Aoife McDonnell, from the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, says the vast Zaatari camp now holds about 120,000 people, making it the fourth biggest city in Jordan.

Tens of thousands of Syrian refugees are stranded at the country's border with Jordan, waiting for permission to cross and reach the camps beyond.

Syrian refugees who have fled to camps in neighbouring countries are furious with President Barack Obama, and some say he should have his Nobel Peace Prize withdrawn.

Defectors from President Bashar al-Assad's army tell Damien McElroy of their hopes for a turn in the tide of the civil war

The family of radical preacher Abu Qatada have left Britain for good after finally dropping their marathon battle to stay in the country.

Abu Qatada will be allowed to preach his sermons and provide "religious guidance" to fellow inmates, officers in the Jordanian prison he is now being held have said.

Michael Deacon watches MPs take turns to congratulate Theresa May on the extradition of Abu Qatada.

The Conservatives will fight the next general election pledging wholesale reform of the human rights act, the Justice secretary has said.

After a decade-long battle to deport him from Britain, Abu Qatada is behind bars in his native Jordan having already been charged with a string of terror offences.

The Conservatives will fight the next general election pledging wholesale reform of the human rights act, the Justice secretary has said.

How Abu Qatada, born in to a non-religious family in Bethlehem grew to become the Islamist terror risk that has seen him deported to Jordan, in the words of his friends, Islamist colleagues and family members. By Ruth Sherlock.

Prime Minister David Cameron says he is "absolutely delighted" that Abu Qatada has been deported to Jordan after an eight-year fight to throw him out of Britain.

David Cameron and Theresa may welcome the deportation of Abu Qatada to Jordan after an eight-year legal battle.

Britain deported radical Islamist cleric Abu Qatada to Jordan in the early hours of Sunday morning to face terror charges, ending a nearly decade-long legal battle to expel him.

A convicted terrorist has delayed his deportation from Britain by more than four years by launching a legal challenge based on his “right to family life”, The Telegraph can disclose.

Abu Qatada is heading to Jordan on Sunday. Ruth Sherlock visits his future home - the country's most comfortable jail.