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Whether being severely suffered by conflicts in places such as the Occupied Territories and Iraq, or any other part of the world, women find themselves forced to play unfamiliar roles during war times, and need the international legal protection they are entitled to, a recent international report stressed.

The Second Arab Women's Summit opens in Amman today with a main recommendation on its agenda to establish an "Arab women organisation under the umbrella of the Arab league.

A campaign to boost national loyalty and strengthen ties among members of the community is being worked out by a special committee formed by King Abdullah II of Jordan.

The second Arab Women Summit opened here yesterday with calls to empower women, and establish an Arab organisation to cater for their needs.

While many Iraqis living in Jordan believe a war against their country is "coming soon", still they hope the UN weapons inspectors would be "objective" in carrying out their mission to help solve the crisis peacefully.

First ladies of several Arab countries are meeting in Amman early next week to discuss ways of empowering women and enhancing their roles in social development.

Scores of women are running for Tuesday's parliamentary elections like in the previous elections. But this time, it is different.

Jordanians will head to polling stations today to elect their new parliament in the first elections in the Kingdom in six years.

Today's Jordanian-American-Israeli-Palestinian summit in the southern Jordanian city of Aqaba is a significant step in the path of solving the Palestinian question and achieving peace in the Middle East, Jordanian officials said.

Political issues in the Middle East eclipsed economic matters at the annual extraordinary meeting of the World Economic Forum, which was inaugurated yesterday afternoon by Jordan's King Abdullah II at a Dead Sea resort.

Amman The Middle East peace quartet yesterday discussed the implementation of the roadmap peace plan as the best way to solve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

The World Economic Forum (WEF) concluded its activities yesterday with calls to end the "cycle of violence" in the region and speed the setting up of a free trade zone in the Middle East.