Jordan, officially the Hashemite (the Arab descendants, either direct or collateral, of the Muḥammad), Kingdom of Jordan, is a country in the Middle East. It shares control of the Dead Sea with Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Jordan is a modern Arab nation, its population is mostly Sunni Muslim with a small Christian minority.
The Capital is Amman. The King is Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein, a pro-American Arab leader. Hours after the death of his father on February 7, 1999, Abdullah became king of Jordan; he was officially crowned on June 9.
The kingdom is a key member of the U.S.-led military coalition against the Islamic State. Jordan joined a U.S.-led air campaign against isis in September 2014. Although Jordan initially sought to downplay its participation in the campaign, Abdullah took on a visible leadership role, and Jordan greatly increased the number of air strikes it carried out after ISIL fighters captured and brutally murdered a downed a Jordanian pilot, Moath al-Kasasbeh, in early 2015.
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