Security ⁠officer killed in stabbing attack in Jordan’s capital

A Jordanian security officer was killed and another wounded in a stabbing outside the Sri Lankan embassy in Amman on Thursday. Jordanian authorities called it a terrorist act and said an initial investigation indicated the attacker had planned to target security officers.

The attack took place at about 12:20pm local time on a busy road in west Amman. The assailant reportedly tried to seize the dead officer’s weapon, but a second officer intervened and detained him; that officer is in stable condition, while the attacker is in critical condition. Jordan’s State Security Court has opened an investigation, and officials say the attacker had previous terrorism-related convictions. Any link to a separate deadly attack at a church in southern Jordan weeks earlier remains unclear.