Green Fatwas: Imams Champion The Environment In Water-Scarce Jordan

Jordan is facing severe water shortages and as refugee numbers rise, so is demand. The state is enlisting imams to help.

Olivia Cuthbert
By Olivia Cuthbert
A father and son wash before prayer at a mosque in Jordan. Water usage at mosques is an issue imams are tackling. (Credit: GIZ)

Even before the arrival of an estimated 1.3 million refugees, Jordan was one of the most water-scarce countries in the world. In 2014, annual water availability plummeted from 147 cubic metres to 123 cm per person, far below the international water poverty line of 500cm per capital per year. Meanwhile, demand is rising. In the northern

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Gulf Nations Celebrated In Western Press While Silencing Their Own Journalists

Western media outlets routinely portray despotic Gulf regimes as benign and friendly states. However, these same outlets ignore the harsh realities that their fellow journalists deal with on a regular basis within those countries, including harassment, imprisonment and torture.

Roqayah Chamseddine
By Roqayah Chamseddine
A journalist takes photos at a palace in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. (AP/Hasan Jamali)

MINNEAPOLIS-- While serving as an unabashed arms dealer to the world's most repressive governments, the United States is also acting as their public relations agent, characterizing countries that routinely undermine freedom of the press, as well as the rights of women and minorities, as being safe and friendly. The clearest examples can be

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Massive US Troop Movement Reported Along Syria-Jordan Border

A regional news outlet released pictures of dozens of military vehicles believed to be from U.K. and U.S. forces along Jordan’s southern border.

teleSUR
By teleSUR
Photo of alleged US-coalition troop movements on the Syria-Jordan border. (Photo: Twitter @M3t4_tr0n)

The United States, the United Kingdom, and Jordan are mobilizing their troops along the border between Syria and Jordan, the al Mayadeen network reported Monday. The pan-Arabist network based out of Beirut, Lebanon, released pictures showing dozens of military vehicles, reportedly in the southern border of the provinces of Suweida and

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Trump Walks Back Promise To Move Israeli Embassy To Jerusalem

US President Donald Trump has reportedly responded to the Jordanian king’s request that the United States refrain from moving the US Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

Jason Ditz
By Jason Ditz
Jordan's King Abdullah greets Vice President Mike Pence during a visit to the White House (Photo: White House Press Office)

(REPORT) --- Following a flurry of regional concern about the possibility, and the direct intervention of the King Abdullah of Jordan, the Trump Administration has sent a message to the Palestinian Authority to assure them that they will not be moving the US Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. The Trump campaign made much of its

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Three CIA Operatives Training Syrian Rebels Killed In Jordan

According to the Washington Post, this represents the deadliest CIA-involved incident since 2009.

Isiah Holmes | The Fifth Column
By Isiah Holmes | The Fifth Column
The remains of Staff Sgt. James F. Moriarty were carried by an Army team at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware last week.

Jordan, (TFC)– Questions and suspicion now embody three deaths of US military operatives in Jordan. Now, decide for yourself which is sketchier. That the men were working for the CIA, or their alleged killer was a man in Jordanian uniform? Despite an ongoing government terrorism investigation, news is as discreet as their Jordanian

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CIA Weapons Shipments Destined For Syrian Rebels Stolen, Emerge On Black Market

It is believed that some of the stolen weapons were used to kill two Americans and three others at a police training facility shooting in Amman in November.

RT
By RT
Free Syrian Army fighters take cover from incoming Syrian Army fire in the Izaa district in Aleppo, Syria, Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012. (AP/Manu Brabo)

The large shipments of CIA and Saudi Arabian arms included Kalashnikov assault rifles, mortars and rocket-propelled grenades, which intelligence agencies bought in bulk in the Balkans and elsewhere around Eastern Europe. Following the delivery to Jordan, the CIA used General Intelligence Directorate officers to transport the weapons to the

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