Japan and Jordan open to prisoner exchange with Islamic State

Amman

JORDAN is in indirect talks with Islamic State to secure the release of a Japanese war journalist and a Jordanian pilot held by the militants, a member of the kingdom's parliament said on Tuesday.

The negotiations are taking place through religious and tribal leaders in Iraq, Bassam Al-Manaseer, chairman of the foreign affairs committee in Jordan's Lower House of parliament, said in an interview in Amman.