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23 Jan 2015, 1:38 pm
On May 20th, 2009 Jordan's King Abdullah officially opened the King Abdullah Special Operations Training Center (KASOTC), a facility set against a dramatic pocketed plateau on the northern outskirts of Amman. [read post]
18 Oct 2007, 5:50 pm
"Ambassador testifies agent could have gotten OK for photos in terror trial; Evidence is at heart of federal case against ex-officials": The Detroit News provides an update that begins, "Taking photos of a military hospital in Amman, Jordan, would have been difficult but not impossible, a former U.S. ambassador to Jordan testified Thursday in the continuing prosecutorial misconduct trial involving a former State Department aide and an ex-federal prosecutor who participated in… [read post]
24 Oct 2011, 5:15 am
Baseline Study: Documenting Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices of Iraqi Refugees and the Status of Family Planning Services in UNHCR's Operations in Amman, Jordan (UNHCR & Women's Refugee Commission, Aug. 2011) [text]Dream of the Hanging Gardens: Male Iraqi Refugees and Exiles in Jordan, Their Migration and Adaptation Experiences, Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies (University of British Columbia, August 2011) [text]"Iraqi Refugees: Making the Urban… [read post]
8 Nov 2017, 9:08 am
November 7, 2017 Amman, Jordan—It was a scene never before seen in Saudi Arabia: 49 princes, ministers, and tycoons – the untouchables – being arrested on corruption charges.While some analysts have portrayed the move as a chilling purge of political rivals, others say Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is making good on his promise for no less than a new social contract for Saudi Arabia.In fact, both appear to be correct. [read post]
16 May 2011, 8:00 am
Annual UNHCR-NGO Consultations, Geneva, 28-30 June 2011 [info]- Registration deadline is 3 June 2011.Mitigating Risk of Gender-Based Violence: Implementing Economic Programs as a Tool of Protection, Amman, Jordan, 20-22 June 2011 [info]- Apply by 3 June 2011.Ninth Annual Orientation Programme on Forced Migration, Kolkata, India, 1-15 December 2011 [info]- Apply by 15 June 2011.CFP: Oxford Monitor of Forced Migration, vol. 1, no. 2 [info]- Deadline for submissions is 24 June 2011.UNHCR-NGO… [read post]
1 Dec 2007, 11:21 pm
AMMAN, Jordan -- Over the past seven years, an imposing building on the outskirts of this city has served as a secret holding cell for the CIA. [read post]
27 Mar 2003, 3:29 pm
[JURIST] From Thursday's UN humanitarian briefing in Amman, Jordan:Q: Michael Jansen, Irish Times: Yesterday a British military briefing officer in Qatar confirmed that they were using Depleted Uranium [tank shells]. [read post]
17 Jun 2015, 4:05 am
Ambassador Alice Wells' attendance at an event last month in central Amman to mark the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia. [read post]
28 Aug 2006, 9:27 am
The bill, which will become law when signed by King Abdullah II [official website], is Jordan's first attempt to address terrorism [JURIST report] since the deadly Amman hotel bomb [CTV report] that killed 57 people in 2005. [read post]
17 Oct 2004, 3:46 am
Jordan's military prosecutor Sunday indicted Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi and twelve other suspects on charges of plotting to attack the US Embassy in Amman and various Jordanian government targets with chemical and conventional weapons. [read post]
26 Mar 2003, 10:22 am
[JURIST] Recorded audio of Wednesday's UN briefing from Amman, Jordan, on the humanitarian situation in Iraq is now available from the United Nations. [read post]
25 Mar 2003, 11:17 am
[JURIST] Tuesday's UN humanitarian briefing from Amman, Jordan, on the situation in Iraq is now available online. [read post]
19 Sep 2006, 8:15 am
The monitoring group found that detainees are arbitrarily arrested and held in GID's detention facility in Amman [read post]
30 Jan 2008, 10:29 am
Men in long Arab robes pelted each other with snowballs in the Jordanian capital, Amman, and the West Bank city of Ramallah, seat of the Palestinian government, came to a standstill. [read post]
27 Jan 2007, 9:51 am
[JURIST] A Jordanian appeals court has upheld a military court's death sentence [JURIST report] for a would-be Iraqi suicide bomber who attempted to detonate a suicide bomb as part of a series of 2005 deadly hotel bombings in Amman. [read post]
21 Sep 2006, 9:54 am
[JURIST] An Iraqi woman who attempted to detonate a suicide bomb as part of the 2005 deadly hotel bombings in Amman [CTV report] was sentenced to death Thursday by a Jordanian military court. [read post]
6 Apr 2004, 2:08 am
A military court in Jordan Tuesday convicted 8 Muslim militants to death in connection with the 2002 murder of USAID official Laurence Foley (see a remembrance page from the US Embassy in Amman). [read post]
30 Jan 2005, 4:20 pm
[JURIST] The Canadian-based International Mission for Iraqi Elections [official website], a multinational group of election experts set up in December to monitor the January 30 vote and make recommendations for improvements in the Iraqi electoral process, issued a preliminary report from its offices in Amman, Jordan, on Sunday praising the poll but stressing a need for greater transparency in [read post]
27 Jan 2005, 12:45 pm
Instead, most IMIE observers will report on the election results from Amman, Jordan. [read post]
2 Apr 2007, 8:42 am
[JURIST] A military court in Jordan [JURIST news archive] handed down sentences Monday for six men charged with planning suicide bombings at Queen Alia International Airport [airport website] in Amman and several hotels frequented by Israelis and Americans. [read post]
