Five people in Saudi Arabia have died from a Sars-like virus and two more are seriously ill, officials say.

Jordan is close to commissioning two nuclear reactors, to be built about 100km south of the Syrian border, widening the spread of atomic energy through the Arab world even as uprisings convulse the

A coalition of countries and agencies seeking to curb Earth-warming pollutants like soot released by wood-fired ovens and methane from oil extraction, on Tuesday welcomed seven new members to its f

Energy-poor Jordan said on Sunday a Russian firm and a French-Japanese consortium are to compete to build the kingdom’s first nuclear plant.

Saboteurs blew up a pipeline carrying natural gas from Egypt to Israel and Jordan on Monday, forcing the line to shut down, Egyptian security sources said.

The explosion took place in the early morning at a station in the northern Sinai Peninsula at Bir Abd, 37 miles east of the Suez Canal, the sources said.

It was the third attack this year on the pipeline, which also supplies local cement

An invasive alien weed, silverleaf nightshade, is threatening cotton and wheat crops in Syria and Iraq and could spread to Lebanon and Jordan, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Tuesday.

More than 60 percent of the farmland in Syria, growing mainly cotton and wheat, has been infested with the weed, originally from the American tropics, which sucks nutrients from