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10 Jailed for Karak Attack in Jordan

A general view of a packed courtroom for those accused of staging an attack on December 2016 in Karak, at the State Security Court, in Amman, Jordan November 13, 2018. (Reuters)
A general view of a packed courtroom for those accused of staging an attack on December 2016 in Karak, at the State Security Court, in Amman, Jordan November 13, 2018. (Reuters)
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10 Jailed for Karak Attack in Jordan

A general view of a packed courtroom for those accused of staging an attack on December 2016 in Karak, at the State Security Court, in Amman, Jordan November 13, 2018. (Reuters)
A general view of a packed courtroom for those accused of staging an attack on December 2016 in Karak, at the State Security Court, in Amman, Jordan November 13, 2018. (Reuters)

Ten suspects were sentenced on Tuesday to prison terms of between three years and life over a 2016 attack in Karak, Jordan.

The ISIS shooting attack in Karak, site of one of the region's largest Crusader castles, killed seven policemen and two Jordanian civilians, as well as a female Canadian tourist, and wounded 34 other people.

The gunfights also left four militants dead.

The defendants were charged in state security court, a military tribunal, with terrorist acts, illegal possession of arms and producing explosives.

Two of them were handed life terms, while three were sentenced to 15 years in prison and five others to serve three years in jail. One defendant was acquitted.

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Trump Calls for Hamas to Be ‘Confronted and Destroyed’ for Hostage Return

President Donald Trump speaks to reporters aboard Air Force One while en route to meet with Russia's President Vladimir Putin at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, Friday, Aug. 15, 2025. (AP)
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters aboard Air Force One while en route to meet with Russia's President Vladimir Putin at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, Friday, Aug. 15, 2025. (AP)
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Trump Calls for Hamas to Be ‘Confronted and Destroyed’ for Hostage Return

President Donald Trump speaks to reporters aboard Air Force One while en route to meet with Russia's President Vladimir Putin at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, Friday, Aug. 15, 2025. (AP)
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters aboard Air Force One while en route to meet with Russia's President Vladimir Putin at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, Friday, Aug. 15, 2025. (AP)

US President Donald Trump said the remaining hostages held in the Israel-Gaza war will only be released “when Hamas is confronted and destroyed!!!”

“The sooner this takes place, the better the chances of success will be,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social site Monday morning.

Fearing an imminent Israeli ground offensive, thousands of Palestinians have left their homes in eastern areas of Gaza City, now under constant Israeli bombardment, for points to the west and south in the shattered territory.

Israel's plan to seize control of Gaza City has stirred alarm abroad and at home where tens of thousands of Israelis held some of the largest protests since the war began, urging a deal to end the fighting and free the remaining 50 hostages held by Palestinian fighters in Gaza since October 7, 2023.

The planned offensive has spurred Egyptian and Qatari ceasefire mediators to step up efforts in what a source familiar with the talks with Hamas in Cairo said could be "the last-ditch attempt."

Hamas told mediators it was ready to resume talks about a US-proposed 60-day truce and release of half the hostages, one official, who asked not to be named, told Reuters, but also for a wider deal that would end the war.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has described Gaza City as Hamas' last big urban bastion. But, with Israel already holding 75% of Gaza, the military has warned that expanding the offensive could endanger hostages still alive and draw troops into protracted and deadly guerrilla warfare.