Rise of Local Salafist Jihadists Worries Jordan's Government - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Osama Al Sharif

Osama Al Sharif

Jul 3, 2013

Jordanian Salafi jihadi leader Abu Sayyaf (R) speaks to his supporters and the media during a demonstration against prolonged detention of the group's leaders near the prime minister's office in Amman, April 9, 2013. REUTERS/Muhammad Hamed (JORDAN - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST RELIGION) - RTXYES1 — Jordanian Salafist jihadist leader Mohammad Shalabi, aka Abu Sayyaf, speaks to his supporters and reporters during a demonstration against prolonged detention of the group's leaders near the prime minister's office in Amman, April 9, 2013. — REUTERS/Muhammad Hamed

Officers of the Jordanian public security department stand guard in the northern city of Irbid, Jordan, March 2, 2016, where a manhunt conducted by Jordanian security forces resulted in the killing of several Islamist militants. REUTERS/ Muhammad Hamed - RTS8X5A

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A correspondent in Jordan

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A Jordanian trailer carrying a military tank drives along a road in Ruweished, near Jordan's eastern border with Iraq, east of Amman June 23, 2014. Sunni tribesmen took control of a border crossing between Iraq and Jordan after Iraq's army pulled out of the area following clashes with rebels, Iraqi and Jordanian intelligence sources said on Monday. It was not immediately clear if the tribesmen's seizure of the Turaibil crossing, the only legal crossing point between Iraq and Jordan, late on Sunday was part

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Osama Al Sharif

Osama Al Sharif

Jordanian soldiers stand guard in front of a poster for Jordan's King Abdullah near the Jordanian Karameh border crossing on the Jordanian-Iraqi border, near Ruweished city June 25, 2014. REUTERS/Muhammad Hamed (JORDAN - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST MILITARY ROYALS) - RTR3VOW9

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Osama Al Sharif

Osama Al Sharif

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