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The anti-normalization committee of the 14 Jordanian professional associations expressed concern on Wednesday about complaints of alleged visits by right-wing Jewish groups to the Jadour Mosque in Salt and said it considers it a desecration of the religious site. Ali Abu Sukar, the committee’s...
The Syrian Muslim Brotherhood movement on Monday refuted press reports that Jordan requested brotherhood members exiled here not to convene the Shura Council in order not to damage Amman’s mending ties with Damascus.
The Criminal Court on Thursday sentenced a 19-year-old man to a 12-month prison-term after finding him guilty of killing his pregnant sister by running her over with his pickup in the Jordan Valley for "reasons of honor" in February of this year. The article mentions similar ruling in which murders...
Hard-line and centrist members of the Muslim Brotherhood sought to bury the hatchet in a crucial Shura Council session that apparently has smoothed out a two-month feud between them, Islamist sources said on Saturday. Several Islamist activists have noted that the growing differences within the...
A simmering feud between the "hawks" and "doves" of the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan was the focus of the Shura Council’s three days of deliberations, due to end on Friday [July 23, 1999] night on whether or not to refer several of its hardline members to the Brotherhood’s internal court.
The results of last week’s municipal elections, in which Islamists won main municipalities, showed that the relationship between the government and opposition parties is on the mend. The results, which were released on Friday following a one-day extension of the vote due to low turnout, were...
Minister of Justice Hamzeh Haddad said a special legal committee at the ministry has decided to cancel article 340 of the Jordanian Penal Code which allows a reduction in penalty for killers who commit crimes of honour.
Excavations began two years ago at Wadi Kharrar and quickly established the existence of hermit dwellings contemporary with Jesus Christ in hills overlooking the springs which feed the valley. It is in the calm, freshwater of those springs, two kilometres east of the Jordan River, that...
Islamists won the country’s main municipalities in elections that they acknowledged as free, fair and democratic.
The controversial ties between Muslim Brotherhood "hawks" in Jordan and the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in the self-rule areas were the hidden reasons behind growing feuds within the Brotherhood ranks, Islamist and independent sources said this week.

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