Category: General

Director of Public Security Directorate (PSD), Major Gen. Hussein Hawatmeh, discussed on Thursday, with the US ambassador to Jordan, Henry Wooster, ways to enhance joint cooperation and coordination in the police and security fields.   During the meeting, Hawatmeh stressed the “deep-rooted, strategic” relations between Jordan and the United States in the field of enhancing security and peace, lauding the

The Eastern Military Zone on Thursday, thwarted an infiltration attempt that included smuggling drugs from Syria into the Kingdom.   A source at the Jordan Armed Forces-Arab Army (JAF) said that army personnel have arrested the suspect, who was transferred to the concerned authorities.   Searching the area, army personnel found 193 palm-sized sheets of hashish, the source noted, stressing

The Jordanian-Tunisian Joint Committee held its first meeting on environmental protection, Wednesday, remotely, headed by Secretary General of the Ministry of Environment, Mohammed Khashna’, which saw participation of the technical committee from the two sides.   In a press statement issued by the ministry on Thursday, Khashna’ stressed the “deep-rooted” relations between the two countries and the need to strengthen

The Foreign Ministry on Thursday condemned the twin suicide bombing attack that targeted a commercial street in central Baghdad, and led to several deaths and injuries.   Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Deifallah Fayez stressed the Kingdom’s denouncement of this “cowardly” terror attack, rejecting all forms of violence that aim at destabilising peace.   Fayez also voiced Jordan’s full solidarity with Iraq

The Ministry of Transport has updated the financial and economic feasibility studies for the first phase of the national railway network project.   The project will be connecting the Kingdom’s southern governorate of Aqaba, passing through Ma’an, with the land port to be inaugurated in the Madouneh area, east of Amman.   A statement by the ministry on Thursday said

The Ministry of Labor on Thursday announced it completed putting a procedural guide with preventive measures to curb the spread of the coronavirus, in partnership with representatives of sectors that will return to work early next month.   The guide will be providing a reference framework for workplace measures amid the current exceptional circumstances, in order to protect the health