Новости за 04.11.2016

AMMAN — At least two US flight instructors were killed in a shooting at the gate of the King Faisal Airbase in Jafer, Maan, on Friday while they were in a car about to enter the premises, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported.
Petra said a third US instructor and a Jordanian non-commissioned officer were injured, adding that an investigation is under way.

AMMAN — His Majesty King Abdullah on Thursday congratulated Michel Aoun, during a phone call, for his election by the parliament as the new Lebanese president, according to a Royal Court statement. 

BEIRUT — Lebanon's president asked Sunni Muslim leader Saad Al Hariri to form a new government on Thursday after he won the support of a majority of MPs and the endorsement of the influential parliament speaker.

ALEPPO, Syria —Syrian rebels renewed their bid to break a government siege of eastern Aleppo on Thursday, shelling regime-held parts of the city hours before a brief Russian-declared ceasefire was due to begin.

AMMAN — Jordan will resume during this month its artificial rainmaking attempts to increase precipitation for the 2016-2017 wet season, a government official said on Thursday.

AMMAN — A man in his 20s allegedly killed his mother in a “heinous way” on Thursday in the capital’s Tabarbour area, the Public Security Department (PSD) said.