A Jordanian policeman has opened fire on foreign trainers at a police compound in Amman, killing two Americans and a South African before being shot dead.

Jordan is going after Islamic State group militants wherever they are and plans to “wipe them out completely,” Jordan’s interior minister said.

Jordan has vowed ‘punishment and revenge’ after its hostage pilot captured by the IS in Syria was burned to death following a week-long drama over a possible prisoner exchange.

Jordanians have started voting in parliamentary elections touted as the start of a democratisation process that will see the king hand over considerable powers to the newly chosen legislature.

Jordan’s prime minister announced price hikes for petrol and other fuel, setting off demonstrations and calls for general strikes.

Eleven men with suspected links to al Qaida have been charged with terrorism conspiracy in Jordan accused of planning attacks on shopping malls and Western diplomatic missions.

Jordan has sternly criticised Syria for artillery shelling on its northern border which injured a Jordanian girl and panicked other civilians.

AT a coffee house, on a desert road, an ancient trade route where caravans once carried spices and silks from distant lands to Petra, I smoked my first hookah.

PROTESTERS in Jordan have been attacked by pro-government supporters who pelted them with stones, injuring six people.

Pro-government supporters have attacked Jordanian protesters pelting them with stones and injuring six people.

Thousands of Jordanians took to the streets of the capital today to voice allegiance to King Abdullah II in the biggest show of support for the monarch since opposition protests began 10 weeks ago.

Clashes have erupted in Jordan’s capital between government supporters and opponents at a protest calling for more public freedom and lower food prices.

The king of Jordan today sacked his government in the wake of street protests and asked an ex-army general to form a new cabinet, the country's Royal Palace said.

Thousands of Jordanian opposition supporters have taken to the streets in the capital Amman, demanding the resignation of the prime minister.

More than 5,000 Jordanians took to the streets across the country yesterday to protest at rising fuel and food prices and demand the prime minister’s removal.

Israel and Egypt signalled a temporary easing of the Gaza Strip blockade today after widespread international condemnation of the deadly Israeli raid on an aid flotilla en route to the sealed-off Palestinian territory.

I WAS in Dubai at the weekend. Nice enough place if you like that kind of thing: glitzy, a bit soulless, but after the weather we’ve been having at home, who’s complaining?

POPE Benedict XVI expressed deep respect for Islam yesterday and said he hopes the Catholic Church can play a role in Mideast peace as he began his first trip to the region, where he hopes to improve frayed ties with Muslims.

The pope expressed deep respect for Islam and said he hoped the Catholic Church could aid Middle Eastern peace as he began his first trip to the region.

Thousands demonstrated against Israel’s attacks on Gaza today across the Middle East, Asia, Africa and Europe.

Jordanians headed to the polls today to elect their second parliament under King Abdullah II, amid apathy toward Islamist politicians and scepticism that the government will help create jobs or alleviate growing poverty.

The Great Wall of China, the Colosseum in Rome and Peru’s Machu Picchu are leading contenders to be among the new seven wonders of the world, as a massive poll draws to a close.

FORTY years after the Six Day War, peace between Israelis and Palestinians seems as distant as ever.

Anti-riot police scuffled with demonstrators in Cairo as Muslims marched in Jordan and Lebanon to express outrage over Israeli renovation work near Islam’s third-holiest shine.

Jordan’s King Abdullah II told an Israeli newspaper today that his country wants its own nuclear programme.

Jordan marked the first anniversary of al-Qaida’s triple hotel bombings today, voicing a fresh resolve to fight terrorism and commemorating the 60 people who lost their lives in the attacks.

A lone gunman from the hometown of the killed al-Qaida in Iraq leader opened fire today on Western tourists visiting the ruins of a Roman amphitheatre.

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 today charged over the attacks that killed 63 people.

Mystery continued to surround a firefight that broke out when US and Iraqi forces surrounded a house in the northern Iraq city of Mosul that was believed used by members of al-Qaida in Iraq. Eight insurgents and four Iraqi policemen died in the assault, officials said.

Thousands of flag-waving Jordanians congregated in Amman today in the March of the Nation, a noisy, emphatic demonstration against the deadly terror attacks that struck the kingdom last week.

JORDAN introduced strict security measures aimed at foreigners yesterday and said it was drafting the country’s first anti-terror legislation to prevent further attacks like last week’s triple hotel bombings.

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.

AL-QAIDA in Iraq claimed yesterday that four Iraqis carried out the suicide bombings against three Amman hotels as police arrested 120 Jordanians and Iraqis in the hunt for anyone who might have aided them.

Thousands of Jordanians rallied in the capital and other cities shouting “Burn in hell, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi!” a day after three deadly hotel bombings that killed at least 59 people.

HUNDREDS of angry Jordanians rallied last night outside one of three hotels attacked by suicide bombers, shouting “Burn in hell, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi!”.

Police in Jordan today detained several suspects as the hunt widened for the militants who fired the rockets that narrowly missed a US Navy ship anchored off Aqaba.

Sixty Jordanians held a vigil outside the British Embassy in Jordan’s capital, Amman, today to protest at the London terror attacks and express solidarity with the British people.

I NOTE the comments from the King of Jordan that Israel must end its occupation of the West Bank and Gaza.

Militants have released a video purporting to show six Jordanian hostages and warned Jordanian companies not to deal with the US military, the Arab television station al-Jazeera reported today.

The Jordanian Cabinet resigned today and King Abdullah will name a prime minister to form a new government amid claims of royal disapproval over the performance of some of his ministers.