Suspected militants blew up a pipeline in Egypt's Sinai that transports gas to Jordan late Monday in the third such attack in less than a month, security officials said.

The officials said there were no immediate reports of injuries, but witnesses said thick flames rose into the sky from the spot where the pipeline was struck.

A Jordanian air force plane on a training flight crashed on Sunday due to a technical fault, but the pilot survived the accident, state-run Petra news agency said.

On Sunday, "around noon (0900 GMT), a Royal Jordanian Air Force plane crashed after encountering a technical problem," Petra quoted an army statement as saying.

In Jordan, a country where smoking is so popular that motorists can be seen puffing away on miniature water pipes in traffic, the kingdom's government now wants to enforce a Western-style smoking ban in restaurants, cafes and other public places.

The ban, coming from a law passed in 2008 but not full enforced, also would see the government revoke the licenses of all 6,000 coffee shops that serve shisha by the end of this year.

Canada said on Thursday that it will provide around Can$100 million ($90 million, 65 million euros) to help Jordan cope with an influx of hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees.

The pledge came as Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper held talks in Amman with Jordan's King Abdullah II about the Syrian conflict and its impact on the kingdom.

Jordan foiled an attempt on Wednesday to smuggle large amounts of weapons, explosives and drugs into the country from Syria, the army said.

"Border guards at dawn foiled a bid to smuggle a very large amount of small- and medium-caliber weapons, explosives and ammunition as well as drugs and cigarettes from the Syrian side into Jordan," it said in a statement on its website.

Jordan is ready to host a U.S. training program for Iraqi troops to help counter a resurgence of al-Qaida-linked militants in its neighbor, a minister said in remarks published Sunday.

His comments come as Iraqi forces are locked in battles with anti-government militants who have gained ground in Anbar province west of Baghdad amid a spike in violence across the country.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made an unannounced visit to neighboring Jordan on Thursday for talks with King Abdullah II on the Middle East peace process, the royal court said.

The rare meeting in the capital Amman comes as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry presses Israel and the Palestinians to agree on a framework to guide peace talks forward.

Israel's defense minister has lashed at U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, saying a security plan he presented is "not worth the paper it was written on," an Israeli newspaper reported Tuesday.

"The American plan for security arrangements that was shown to us... provides neither security nor peace," Moshe Yaalon was quoted by Yediot Aharonot as saying.

Jordan's Islamists on Monday criticized the U.S. ambassador in Amman for taking part in a dabke folk dance at the inauguration of a project, describing it as "shocking behavior."

Following the opening of a $140 million (100 million euro) U.S.-funded project in the northern governorate of Irbid last Thursday, envoy Stuart E. Jones joined officials and women in dancing a Jordanian dabke.

Ahmad Jarba, the leader of Syria's opposition National Coalition, said Sunday that the U.S.-led "Friends of Syria" grouping had agreed that President Bashar Assad and his family will have no role in the country's future.

Jarba did not announce whether or not the opposition would take part in peace talks with representatives of Assad's regime due to start next week in Switzerland.