King Abdullah of Jordan headed to the hospital for surgery just days after his new granddaughter, Amina, was born.

NPR traveled with Jordan's military on a recent helicopter flight delivering aid to the Gaza Strip, part of a test program since the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas went into effect last month.

Jordan's King Abdullah II: "One of the things we can do right away is take 2,000 children that are either cancer children or in very ill state to Jordan as quickly as possible..." Advertisement ...

AL-QARARA, Gaza Strip — With just five minutes on the ground, Jordanian air force crew members rush to unload cardboard boxes from the back of a Black Hawk helicopter on the tarmac. In the ...