Abdullah II of Jordan

May 8, 2023 | |

Jordanian MP Who Smuggled Weapons into West Bank Repatriated by Israel

Israel handed over a Jordanian member of parliament to Jordanian authorities on May 7 to face trial for attempting to smuggle weapons into the West Bank. Israel had arrested Imad...

April 24, 2023 | |

Jordan Draws Closer to Iran While Displaying Hostility to Israel

Officials from Iran and Jordan are preparing to meet to improve relations and cooperation between the two countries. The agreement to meet “as soon as possible” came during...

April 5, 2023 | |

Palestinian Rioters Attack Israeli Forces at al-Aqsa Mosque

Latest Developments Palestinian rioters armed with fireworks, batons, and stones barricaded themselves in the al-Aqsa Mosque Tuesday night and refused to exit peacefully, prompting Israeli...

April 4, 2023 | |

Jordan’s King Incites Anti-Israel Sentiment

Jordan’s King Incites Anti-Israel Sentiment Latest Developments King Abdullah II of Jordan on Sunday told a visiting Palestinian Authority (PA) delegation, led by President Mahmoud Abbas, that...

March 8, 2023 | |

Secretary of Defense Austin Visits Jordan, Iraq, Egypt, and Israel

Latest Developments Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin is scheduled to visit Israel tomorrow after trips to Jordan, Iraq, and Egypt this week. Originally slated to visit Israel today, Austin reportedly delayed...

February 14, 2023 | Hussain Abdul-Hussain |

When will Saudi Arabia Sign Peace with Israel?

Saudi Arabia's new policy, Vision 2030, requires a newer foreign policy on Palestinians

February 10, 2023 | Natalie Ecanow |

Captagon: Assad’s Deadly Drug Of Choice Expands To Israel

Israel’s Ministry of Defense thwarted an attempt to smuggle thousands of captagon tablets into the Gaza Strip last week. The news was overshadowed by soaring tensions, amidst continued unrest in the...

January 13, 2023 | |

Israel and Arab Allies Conclude Negev Forum Without Jordan

Latest Developments  Senior officials from the United States, Israel, Bahrain, Morocco, Egypt, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) wrapped up two days of meetings on Tuesday as part of the Negev Forum in...

December 21, 2022 | Clifford D. May |

Abdullah in the middle

Why Jordan has not joined the Abraham Accords

December 8, 2022 | Jonathan Schanzer |

Neither Here Nor There

Jordan and the Abraham Accords

May 27, 2022 | Jonathan Schanzer |

Jordan Has an Iran Problem. Can Israel and Saudi Arabia Unite to Combat It?

The situation also presents an opportunity for the Biden administration.

January 18, 2022 | Hussain Abdul-Hussain, Enia Krivine

‘Warmer’ peace with Israel offers Jordan better economic dividends

Excerpt For the first time in seven years, the Jordanian royal court recently released a photo of King Abdullah II meeting with an Israeli official, Defense Minister Benny Gantz, Jan. 5 in Amman....

December 3, 2021 | Aykan Erdemir, Sinan Ciddi, John Hardie

Collusion or Collision?

Turkey-Russia Relations Under Erdogan and Putin

October 6, 2021 | David Adesnik |

Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: September

July 28, 2021 | Hussain Abdul-Hussain |

Blinken Should Invite Kuwait to Join Abraham Accords

If the Biden administration is serious about expanding the Abraham Accords, it has to show countries like Kuwait that peace is still one of Washington’s top priorities.

July 28, 2021 | Jonathan Schanzer |

Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: Late July

August 7, 2020 | Richard Goldberg |

How the Middle East Can Hedge Against a Biden Presidency

Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are in for a rude awakening if former Vice President Joe Biden defeats President Donald Trump in November and Democrats take control of the U.S. Senate in...

May 13, 2020 | Jonathan Schanzer |

How to Decouple Key Supply Chains from China

The great power competition between Washington and Beijing is heating up. The U.S. effort to contain China’s rise is now on full display, as the Trump administration (rightly) blames China for failing...

August 14, 2019 | Thomas Joscelyn |

Shabaab’s jihad against the ‘leaders of disbelief’

Shabaab’s latest video features a clip of Ayman al-Zawahiri criticizing “corrupt regimes” that are allied with America. Shabaab, al Qaeda’s branch in East Africa, has released a lengthy video that...

June 22, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal

Exclusive: German Islamic Center Raises Money for Hezbollah

The Al-Mustafa community center in the city-state of Bremen in northern Germany is a major hub for raising funds for the EU and US designated terrorist organization Hezbollah in Lebanon, accordin...