A World Bank-sponsored deal between Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority aims to save the Dead Sea. But it achieves a …
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Circus Troupe Tries to Lift Spirits of Syrian Refugees
You can’t really call it the Big Top. The tent that contains Circus Zaatari is just one more among thousands of tents in the sprawling refugee camp, and none is very tall. When one Syrian refugee stands on the shoulders of …
Tragedy by Numbers: The Lasting Impact of War on Syria’s Children
UNHCR paints a bleak picture for the 1.1 million youngest victims of the Syrian civil war
Russian Envoy Dismisses U.N. Report on Syrian Chemical Weapons as ‘Biased’
Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov claims the evidence presented in the 38-page dossier is distorted and ‘politicized’ by investigators
Zaatari at One Year: On Sidelines of War, Refugees Struggle for a Better Life
Andrew Harper doesn’t get much sleep. There just aren’t enough hours in the day. At 48, he’s devoted more than half of his life to aiding refugees, and years ago he turned his attention to Jordan, where he serves as a top …
Jordan Is Living Dangerously as Syria Burns
King Abdullah of Jordan had hoped next week’s parliamentary elections would be the jewel in the crown of a reform process designed to inoculate the Kingdom from the fever of political rebellion raging across the region. Little …
Jordan’s Survival Strategy Hits a Wall: Tightening Funds Make It Hard to Buy Support
Jordan’s King Abdullah II and the foreign powers most invested in his political survival will be hoping that his country isn’t about to demonstrate Trotsky’s maxim that all revolutions are impossible until they become inevitable. …
Is the Glass Half Full for Syria’s Assad?
He may no longer control huge swathes of Syrian territory, but his forces appear nowhere near collapse. Over the past 18 months, at least, the dictator has beaten the odds
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On deck for Friday: Death count reveals 18 children and one adult killed by a landslide in the southwest China’s Yunnan province, Morocco bars the entrance of a Dutch ship that provides abortion services, Jordan’s King dissolves …
Five Reasons Why the Assad Regime Survives
Syria’s conflict has morphed into a civil war whose fault lines and consequences are quite different from other Arab rebellions
The Six-Day War: Photos from a Short, Bloody Conflict
The war fought 45 years ago from June 5-10 helped bolster Israel’s legend of military invincibility but it also left a legacy of displacement and bitterness that unsettles the region to this day
A Prime Minister Resigns in Jordan, and the Sun Rises in the East
The news out of Jordan almost does not qualify as news: Prime Minister Awn Khasawneh resigned Thursday. It happened all of a sudden and without explanation, but it’s something that happens so frequently in the Hashemite Kingdom …
Peacekeepers for Syria? Not While There’s No Peace to Keep
As Arab and Western diplomats work to fashion tools to pressure the Syrian regime to end its military response to a year-old rebellion, an unrelenting artillery exacts a terrible daily toll on the residents of rebel-held Sunni …