Новости за 08.06.2016

AMMAN — The Jordanian Medical Association (JMA) should allocate 30 per cent of its council membership to women to reduce the obstacles facing female doctors, the Sisterhood Is Global Institute - Jordan (SIGI) said on Wednesday.

AMMAN — Rumours and false information spread quickly when authorities do not update the public, media experts said on Wednesday following a news blackout on Monday’s terror attack. 

AMMAN — Jordan’s Interpol office has recently arrested seven suspects who are wanted internationally, the Public Security Department (PSD) announced on Wednesday.

GARMA, Iraq — Iraqis who fled Daesh-held Fallujah as government and allied forces advanced on the city said they had survived on stale dates and the militants were using food to enlist fighters whose relatives were going hungry.

NAYMIYAH, Iraq — After securing the southern edge of militant-held Fallujah, seven battalions of Iraqi special forces units have been unable to advance for two days — a delay that commanders say isn't due to counterattacks or difficult terrain, but rather to disagreements about battlefield strategy among the disparate Iraqi forces fighting the Daesh terror group.

KHIRDEH, Syria — For the first time in more than two years, Awash Al Aboud looked out at her village in northern Syria wearing a fearless grin instead of the black veil imposed by the Daesh terror group.

AMMAN — The World Bank (WB) is downgrading its 2016 global growth forecast to 2.4 per cent from the 2.9 per cent pace projected in January. 

AMMAN — Deputising for His Majesty King Abdullah, HRH Crown Prince Hussein on Tuesday offered his condolences to the families of three of the five General Intelligence Department (GID) personnel who were killed early Monday in an attack on the department's office near Baqaa Palestinian refugee camp, north of Amman.

AMMAN— The government on Tuesday issued a gag order banning the publication of any reports about Monday’s attack on the Baqaa office of the General Intelligence Department (GID).