Britain's government on Monday challenged a ruling blocking the extradition of Jordanian terror suspect Abu Qatada, saying that the justice system in the Arab nation could be trusted.

The Court of Appeal in London reserved judgment until a later date after hearing arguments from the interior ministry and from Abu Qatada's lawyers.

The Philippine government on Sunday welcomed the release of its 21 U.N. peacekeepers after they were freed by Syrian rebels and crossed into Jordan, where officials waited to receive them.

The troops, members of a U.N. force monitoring a 1974 ceasefire between Syria and Israel, were abducted on Wednesday.

King Abdullah II of Jordan reappointed Abdullah Nsur as premier and tasked him with forming the new government after talks between his chief of staff and parliamentarians, the royal palace said.

"The king has accepted the resignation of the (previous) government and charged Abdullah Nsur to form a new government," the palace said.

King Abdullah II of Jordan said on Saturday that he hoped the visit of U.S. President Barack Obama to Israel and the West Bank later this month will offer a momentum to the Mideast peace process.

"We are looking forward to welcoming President Obama in Jordan soon. And I hope to see real momentum in the peace process after his visit, a strategic national interest for both our countries," the king said in an address to Jordanian and American businessmen at a meeting in Amman.

Dissident Syrian ex-premier Riad Hijab issued a new call on Friday for the arming of rebels fighting President Bashar Assad's rule after Western governments again opposed sending more than non-lethal aid.

Hijab, whose shock flight to Jordan with his family last August was the highest-profile defection from the Assad regime, said foreign arms shipments were the sole way to tilt the balance in the two-year-old conflict.

A Jordanian MP, angered by a fellow deputy accusing the premier of corruption, tried to draw a pistol during a session of parliament on Wednesday but was circled by colleagues who talked him down.

Khalil Atiyeh, a deputy speaker, said MP Shadi al-Adwan was annoyed when fellow MP Zeid Shawakbeh accused Prime Minister Abdullah Nsur of corruption.

Jordan's King Abdullah II called on the Syrian regime Tuesday to move towards an "inclusive transition" to prevent the breakup of the war-torn country.

"Only an inclusive transition will stop sectarian conflict and avoid fragmentation of Syria," the king said at a press conference with Turkish President Abdullah Gul.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Jordan's King Abdullah II met in Jordan last week and discussed the Middle East peace process, a diplomatic source told Agence France Presse on Saturday.

"Last week, Netanyahu traveled to Jordan and met King Abdullah II," the source said, speaking on condition of anonymity. "In the meeting, they discussed the Middle East peace process."

Lebanon and Jordan confirmed on Friday that both countries still haven't received any of the aid that donor Arab and other states pledged to pay to assist with the influx of Syrian refugees.

“We need to tackle the matter with the international community in a united and collaborative way to resolve the burden of the refugees on our countries,” visiting Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Jawdeh told reporters at a joint press conference with his Lebanese counterpart Adnan Mansour.

A Jordanian policeman and two Syrian children were injured on Sunday when refugees rioted at the Zaatari camp in northern Jordan, prompting police to use tear gas to disperse them, a government official said.

The unrest involving around 200 Syrians broke out after a visitor to the camp distributed money to the refugees, said Anmar Hmud, a government spokesman for Syrian refugee issues said