JERUSALEM: Fifteen people were injured in clashes between Jordan’s Arab Legion and a crowd immediately after the assassination of King Abdullah yesterday [July 21], according to reports... . The Commander of the Old City Police Force, Riad Inid, was ... wounded when rioting Arabs exchanged fire with Arab Legion troops, the reports said. Arab Legion armoured cars were rushed in and opened fire on Arabs looting shops, the reports said. The disturbance was followed by declaration of a state of emergency and ... curfew... . — News agencies

[Meanwhile, according to news agencies in Washington,] Admiral Forrest Sherman, American Chief of Naval Operations, yesterday, [July 21] urged that military aid to the Middle East and Eastern Mediterranean areas should be … expanded.

His views were given to the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee by ... Deputy Vice-Admiral Donald B. Duncan. … Admiral Sherman urged that military equipment and technical advice and training be continued to help the nations … become stronger friends of the [US]. … He also recommended continued aid to Iran “to encourage that country to assist subversion and to develop forces for its defence”.

Published in Dawn, July 23rd, 2026