Wadi Rum's otherworldly landscape is where Star Wars movies and The Martian were filmed. In late winter, plants emerge in this desert — but some are toxic to camels, so their herders must protect them.
Children from Gaza with cancer are finally making it to Jordan for long-promised treatment. But a plan to allow as many as 2,000 patients out of the war-torn enclave has slowed.
Food aid is moldering in warehouses in Jordan, the main hub for humanitarian aid to Gaza. Other foods and medicines are loaded on trucks that have waited for months at Israeli border crossings.
NPR traveled with Jordan's military on a recent helicopter flight delivering aid to the Gaza Strip, part of a test program since the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas went into effect last month.
More than 7,000 people had taken shelter in the Rukban camp, near the border with Jordan, many of whom fled the regime and ISIS attacks almost a decade ago.
The Islamic Action Front, the political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood, is now the single biggest opposition bloc in Jordan's 138-member parliament, winning one-fifth of the seats this week.
For the first time, political parties in Jordan are enabled to play a bigger role, relying on their platforms, amid fears of a wider war in the region.
It is one of the most solemn tasks for a commander-in-chief, bearing witness as the bodies of fallen service members return to U.S. soil at Dover Air Force Base.
Shock and grief are rippling across Georgia after the U.S. Defense Department announced three Army Reserve soldiers from the state were killed in a weekend drone strike in Jordan. Those killed were identified Monday as Sgt. William Jerome Rivers of Carrollton, Spc. Kennedy Sanders of Waycross and Spc. Breonna Alexsondria Moffett of Savannah.
The soldiers were assigned to the 718th Engineer Company, 926th Engineer Battalion, 926th Engineer Brigade, at Fort Moore, south of Columbus near the Alabama line and had been near the Syrian border as part of Operation Inherent Resolve.
A coalition of militias backed by Iran claimed credit for the attack on a base in Jordan. It comes amid the conflict in the Middle East that the U.S. has been working to keep from spreading.
Jordan said its field hospital in Khan Younis was hit by shells and gunfire, injuring a doctor and a patient. Israel denied the claim and said it was engaged in a skirmish with Hamas fighters nearby.
