The Middle East is an artificial construct created by British and French diplomats after World War I, and the recent collapse of Syria has led to calls for the region to be divided according to ...

The monarch has ideas for leaders who've gathered for the U.N. General Assembly. Queen Rania Al Abdullah has been one of Jordan's leaders since 1999, as the wife of King Abdullah II. The Middle ...

Israel is pushing the whole Middle East to the brink of regional conflict by maintaining a dangerous escalation on several fronts, Jordan's foreign minister said on Wednesday.

But in the 1967 war with Arab states, Israel took the West Bank, which it still occupies, and annexed East Jerusalem. The war prompted another flow of Palestinian refugees into Jordan, about 300,000.

They carved up the Middle East map with the stroke of a pen, and we have lived with the consequences ever since. The San Remo Conference in 1920 codified colonial interests out of the remains of ...