Jordan king to visit US, 3 days after Trump's refugee ban

Jordan's King Abdullah II is to begin a working visit to Washington tomorrow, three days after President Donald Trump temporarily banned entry to the US from seven Muslim-majority countries and suspended the refugee resettlement program.

State media have said the king would meet with administration officials and members of Congress, but did not mention a White House visit.

Pro-Western Jordan isn't among the countries slapped with the 90-day travel ban, imposed over security concerns, but views refugee resettlement to the US and other countries as a way of easing its own burden; Jordan hosts more than 650,000 displaced Syrians.

Analyst Fahed Khitan said today that a possible US shift in the military campaign against Islamic State extremists will likely be an issue. Jordan belongs to a US-led anti-IS coalition.