List of Jordan articles
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TO GO WITH: Pakistan-unrest-Afghanistan, U.S. Firm Denied Request to Market Drones to Jordan
Republican congressman Duncan Hunter from Californian wants the decision reversed.
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458277594jordancrop Just Because You Quote Clint Eastwood Doesn’t Make You a Cowboy
Jordan’s King Abdullah may be talking tough about revenge against the Islamic State, but don't expect the cavalry to follow.
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462699376_960 The Islamic World Versus the Islamic State
The new U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights has been calling for an intellectual war against the Islamic State. After the group's latest gruesome execution, it looks like he's finally going to get it.
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Jordanian protesters hold an Al-Qaeda-affiliated flag during a demonstration against an amateur film mocking Islam near the US embassy in Amman on September 14, 2012. More than 2,000 Islamists demonstrated in Amman to condemn the anti-Islam film "Innocence of Muslims", as the Jordanian government demanded YouTube remove trailers for the low-budget movie posted on its website. AFP PHOTO/KHALIL MAZRAAWI (Photo credit should read KHALIL MAZRAAWI/AFP/GettyImages) The Men Who Love the Islamic State
It may not be the vicious killers hundreds of miles away who pose the greatest threat to Jordan, but the angry young men cheering on the jihadis in the country’s own towns and cities.
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455538808_960 Can the Islamic State’s Last Hostages Be Saved?
The brutal killing of a missing Jordanian pilot means that military force may be the only way of freeing captives in Syria -- including a 26-year-old American aid worker.
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462399296crop Fate of Missing Pilot Unknown as Deadline for Hostage Swap Passes
The negotiations over a pair of Islamic State hostages have played out in public to an unprecedented degree.
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462393650crop Is the Jordanian Pilot Still Alive?
Amman says it’s willing to trade a jihadi bomber for the life of a pilot held by the Islamic State. It may already be too late.
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460839560_jordan1 ‘Whatever the Islamic State Wants, We Should Give Them’
As the crisis heats up over a captured Jordanian pilot, a father begs for his release, Islamist politicians want to pull back from the Syrian conflict, and a country questions its role in the war.
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SYRIA-CONFLICT-JORDAN The Islamic State Captures Jordanian Pilot After F-16 Crash
The extremists have a Jordanian pilot in their clutches after his plane crashed, although the group claims it shot down the jet. The pilot's fate now rests in the hands of the group.
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maayehtop The Private Lives of Syria’s War Widows
In a dusty Jordanian border town, the "wives of martyrs" struggle to care for their families and rebuild their lives.
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Photo by Saul Loeb / AFP The Mouse That Roars
Tiny Jordan's spies have helped the United States hunt down some of its most dangerous enemies. Now Obama is hoping those spooks can beat the Islamic State.
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Kobi Gideon - GPO - Getty Israel’s Leviathan Captures Another Gas Deal
With the latest accord to sell natural gas to Jordan, Israel is slowly but surely becoming a linchpin of the region's energy supplies.
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