Ten suspects were sentenced on Tuesday to prison terms of between three years and life over a 2016 attack in Karak, Jordan.

The Amman Court of Reconciliation on Monday refused to release on bail eight defendants in connection with the death of 21 people, many of them school students, who perished in the flashfloods that struck the Dead Sea area last month.

Jordan and Japan on Monday discussed an investment plan to revitalise the Hijaz Railway’s infrastructure in support of the national economy, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported.

The Cabinet on Monday amended conditions set in February this year to grant investors Jordanian nationality or residency, a Cabinet statement said.

The body of a 5-year-old girl who went missing in Friday’s flashfloods in Mleih in Madaba Governorate was recovered on Monday morning, ending a four-day search operation for missing people, according to the Civil Defence Department (CDD).

The death toll from flash floods that ravaged Jordan last week has risen to 13, according to the Jordanian authorities on Monday.

A group of six men who were stranded in Maan Governorate’s Jafer area following Friday’s flashfloods were rescued and evacuated on Sunday morning.

It was a busy weekend for Jordan. Around 12 people; including children, died in flash floods and a suspicious disappearance of the head of Mominoun [Believers] Without Borders research center who was accused of blasphemy.

Twelve people were killed on Friday and Saturday and 29 were injured in flashfloods that swamped several parts of the country following heavy rain, while the search continued on Saturday for seven more missing people, among them a girl reported missing in Heidan Valley in Madaba Governorate.

At least 11 people were killed and dozens were injured on Friday after floods ripped several areas of the Kingdom, the government said Friday.

Social media platforms fired up with shocking pictures for Jordanian actress Mais Hamdan that are rumored to have been taken during her birthday celebration, which pushed the starlet to clarify things up through her social media platforms.

An Israeli military force on Thursday tore down a tent that was being used as a classroom for Palestinian students in the Jordan Valley region of the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

King Abdullah on Wednesday received dignitaries and representatives of Palestinian refugee camps in the Kingdom, as part of The King's continuous meetings with various segments of the Jordanian community.

The United Nations has finished distribution of aid to thousands of Syrians, mostly women, and children, stranded in the desert close to the border with Jordan, an aid official said on Wednesday.

As Jordanians have been celebrating the re-opening of borders with Syria after seven years of war, the news of Jordanian man arrested by Syrian authorities came as a shock for many.