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Conflict● Elevated22m ago · Nov 11, 2026, 9:29 PM

Suspect faces terrorism charges over deadly police stabbing in Jordan

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AMMAN: Prosecutors in Jordan have charged a suspect with two terrorism-related offenses in connection with a stabbing attack in Amman last week in which one police officer was killed and another injured. The State Security Court’s attorney general, Brig. Gen. Military Judge Ahmed Talat Shahaltough, said the suspect had been charged under Jordan’s 2006 Anti-Terrorism Law with committing an armed terrorist act resulting in death, and carrying out an armed terrorist act. The case has been referred

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