According to our sources, regular discussions are back on again between Jordan's intelligence service, the General Intelligence Directorate (GID), headed [...]

JORDAN 07/06/2017

Abdallah II ready to intervene directly and by proxy in Syria

King Abdallah II of Jordan is putting the finishing touches to a plan to intervene militarily in Syria. The monarch, [...]

JORDAN 05/04/2017

Intelligence shake-up amid internal squabbling

In naming General Adnan Issam al Jundi head of the powerful General Intelligence Directorate (GID) on March 30, Jordan's King [...]

SYRIA JORDAN 22/02/2017

Amman consolidates rapprochement with Damascus

Jordan's security heavyweights are reconnecting with Syria via the Kremlin. [...]

JORDAN 11/01/2017

Intelligence reform on the cards Free

King Abdullah II is preparing a major overhaul of Jordan’s security and intelligence services in the wake of the terror attack in Karak in December. [...]

JORDAN 12/10/2016

Faisal Al Shoubaki

Faisal Al Shoubaki may soon step down as the head [...]

JORDAN MIDDLE EAST 15/06/2016

GID grapples with Islamic State

The Jordanian intelligence services believe the country is riddled with dormant terrorist cells and they have therefore launched a plan of attack to dismantle them. [...]

JORDAN RUSSIA 03/02/2016

Amman tries to sweeten Putin

Meshaal Mohammed al-Zaben, Jordan’s chief of joint defence staff, secretly met the Syrian defence minister Fahd Jassem al-Freij in Moscow [...]

JORDAN UNITED STATES 21/10/2015

Israel offers drones while US wavers

Israel has offered to sell several observation drones to Jordan's General Intelligence Directorate (GID), sources tell Intelligence Online. A deal [...]

JORDAN PALESTINE 09/09/2015

Mohammed Dahlan

Mohammed Dahlan, the Palestinian leader and advisor to Mohammed bin [...]

JORDAN UNITED STATES 26/08/2015

American Systems teaches commandos

US trainers from American Systems are poised to move into the barracks of the King Abdullah II Special Operations Training [...]

JORDAN 08/07/2015

New crisis unit against Islamic State

The King of Jordan, Abdullah II, convened a meeting of [...]

JORDAN 10/06/2015

General Atif al Saudi

General Atif al Saudi has been appointed head of the [...]

JORDAN 27/05/2015

Amman looks to broaden alliances

Jordan's GID has relied on support from the US intelligence services. But the shifting sands in regional diplomacy, with the rapprochement between Washington and Tehran and the new leadership in Riyadh, have sent Amman looking for new allies. [...]

JORDAN 08/04/2015

The GID

The GID, Jordan's General Intelligence Directorate, believes that the senior [...]

JORDAN UNITED KINGDOM 11/03/2015

Blunt advises Kamal

Conservative MP Crispin Blunt has become an advisor to the [...]

JORDAN 25/02/2015

Abdullah II

Abdullah II, the King of Jordan, met his two security [...]

FRANCE JORDAN 11/02/2015

Minimal role for stretched COS in Eager Lion

Currently deployed almost to the limits of its operational capacity [...]

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