An online message purportedly from Islamic State warned that a Japanese hostage and Jordanian pilot who the extremists hold have less than “24 hours left to live”.

A prosecution witness in a trial in Amman, Jordan, today said an Iraqi woman lied when she said she did not plan to blow herself up in Amman’s triple hotel blasts.

A man whose wedding was destroyed by a suicide attack today asked a Jordanian court to condemn to death by public hanging the one assailant who survived the bombing.

The Jordanian Bar Association today declined to provide a volunteer lawyer to defend an Iraqi woman tried for her role in a suicide bombing against three Jordanian hotels.

VEILED and speaking in a low voice, the woman suicide bomber who failed to blow herself up in a Jordanian hotel last year went on trial in Amman yesterday, charged over the attacks that killed 63 people.

Veiled and speaking in a low voice, the woman suicide-bomber who failed to blow herself up in a Jordanian hotel last year went on trial in Amman today charged over the attacks that killed 63 people.

Jordan’s military prosecutor has concluded his investigation into last year’s hotel bombings in Amman and plans to indict 11 people, including the al-Qaida in Iraq chief Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, according to court documents.

Three brothers of a failed Iraqi suicide bomber had been killed by US forces, it was reported today.

AMERICAN forces last year detained and later released an Iraqi with a name that matched one of three suicide bombers who struck Amman hotels, killing 57 people, the US military said yesterday.

Wearing a disabled explosives belt and a white headscarf and wringing her hands as she spoke, the Iraqi woman calmly described how she tried and failed to join her husband in a suicide attack on a hotel wedding party.

AN Iraqi woman appeared on Jordanian television yesterday confessing to a failed bid to set off an explosives belt inside one of the three Amman hotels targeted by al-Qaida.

An Iraqi woman appeared on Jordanian television today confessing to a failed bid to set off an explosives belt inside one of the three Amman hotels targeted by al-Qaida.

Police have arrested an Iraqi woman would-be suicide bomber who failed to detonate her explosives inside one of Amman’s three bombed hotels, Jordanese officials announced today in a dramatic breakthrough in the case.