Jordan

May 31, 2023

BBC erasure of Hizballah from Syria drug trafficking story persists

The return of the Assad regime to the Arab League was the topic of no fewer than four written report...

May 19, 2023

No BBC follow-up on Jordan MP gun smuggling story

Last month the BBC News website published a report about the arrest of a Jordanian MP at the Allenby...

May 9, 2023

Omissions in BBC report on Arab League reinstatement of Syria

On the evening of May 7th a report headlined “Arab League: Syria reinstated as Assad rehabilitatio...

May 1, 2023

BBC News skips the background to Jordan gun smuggling story

On April 24th the BBC News website published a short report by Raffi Berg headlined “Israel arrest...

April 13, 2023

Jordanian disinformation goes unchallenged on BBC Radio 4

Previously we looked at omissions in BBC News website reporting on disturbances on Temple Mount on t...

January 20, 2023

Omission and inaccuracy in BBC report on Jordanian tourist site

On January 15th a report by Yolande Knell concerning a tourism project in Jordan was published on th...

January 6, 2023

Weekend long read

1) Researchers at the INSS analyse ‘Deepening Cooperation between Iran and Russia’. “Economic ...

October 7, 2022

Weekend long read

1) At WINEP, Saud Al-Sharafat explains ‘The Captagon War: Smuggling on the Jordanian-Syrian Border...

June 3, 2022

Weekend long read

1) At the JCPA, Yoni Ben Menachem looks at ‘The “War on Drugs” at the Syrian-Jordanian Border�...

February 8, 2022

BBC News again skirts the topic of Hizballah drug trafficking

Back in December 2020 we documented the appearance of a report by the BBC’s Quentin Sommerville ab...