"He said 'mum there is someone in the mosque shooting us'."

Kiwis are showing their support for the Muslim community following yesterday's atrocity.

Academy welcomes a new cohort with a wings ceremony to provide motivation.

Netflix has committed a major faux pax in Jordan.

For eight years Israel have withheld postal deliveries to Palestinian territories.

Several thousand Jordanians marched toward the office of outgoing PM Hani Mulki.

Jordanians have protested against a planned tax increase for a fourth straight day.

Esquires Coffee has opened stores in Pakistan and Jordan, expanding its global footprint.

Most athletes have a specialty and for Jordan Hume of Whanganui, it's relays

Lula the bear and Simba the lion have been taken out of a zoo in war-torn Iraq.

A Kiwi cameraman is part of a bid to get a lion and bear out of Isis-controlled Mosul.

UK to ban electronic devices on UK-bound flights from Middle East.

Israel bars Kiwi ambassador from entering the country in further fallout from the UN Security Council's resolution to condemn settlements in occupied territories.

Seven policemen, two Jordanian civilians and one Canadian tourist were killed on Sunday.

Recent heavy rains caused flash floods across the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, forcing authorities to close the gates of the famed Petra ruins.

As the Syrian conflict approaches its fifth anniversary, not far across the border in Jordan an altogether more hopeful milestone is being celebrated.

The moment a giant sandstorm swept through Jordan's Queen Alia Airport has been caught on camera.

A Twitter campaign ran in the days after the capture of a Jordanian pilot, in which Isis supporters suggested sick methods of his execution.

Graham Reid visits one of the most famous sites in Christianity's history.

New Zealand has agreed to take 100 refugees from Syria after the United Nations called on the international community for help.

More than half a million people fled Syria's civil war last year, and the UN says that number could double by the end of 2013.

Anxious to keep Syria's civil war from spiralling into even worse problems, President Barack Obama said yesterday he worried about the country becoming a haven for extremists when - not if - President Bashar Assad was ousted from power.

Jordan is famous for Petra, the fallen capital of a pre-Roman empire whose citizens carved impressive buildings directly into the rock.

Syria's neighbours are increasingly being drawn into the country's civil war in a variety of ways, whether militarily or due to an exodus of Syrians fleeing the fighting at home.