AMMAN Jordan -- Jordan has officially jumped on the bandwagon of countries, such as the U.S. and Britain, that have adopted anti-terrorism laws. The Jordanian parliament has endorsed the bill despite warnings from human rights groups and opposition parties...

On April 20, Sa'id 'Siam, the new Palestinian interior minister and member of Hamas, established the Executive Force -- a unit made up of about 3,850 armed men, most of them Hamas members, and including more than 500 members of the Popular Resistance...