Cast
- Leonardo DiCaprio as Roger Ferris, a field officer, working in CIA's Near East Division, later CIA Station Chief of Amman, Jordan
- Russell Crowe as Ed Hoffman, chief of CIA's Near East Division
- Mark Strong as Hani Salaam, Jordanian intelligence chief, director of the feared GID
- Golshifteh Farahani as Aisha, a nurse in Amman, Ferris' love interest
- Oscar Isaac as Bassam, CIA field operative in Iraq and Ferris' associate, killed by RPG fire in an operation
- Ali Suliman as Omar Sadiki, a Jordanian architect with very low-profile contact with Al-Qaeda, CIA's mole to catch Al-Saleem, killed by Al-Saleem after CIA finishes with him
- Alon Aboutboul as Al-Saleem, head of an independent terrorist group based in Jordan, aligned with Al-Qaeda
- Vince Colosimo as Skip, CIA field operative in Jordan
- Simon McBurney as Garland, a computer geek employed by the CIA to instrument black ops
- Mehdi Nebbou as Nizar, former linguist, Al-Qaeda operative and attempted defector, killed by Ferris
- Michael Gaston as Holiday, Ferris' predecessor as CIA's Jordan station chief
- Kais Nashif as Mustafa Karami, former petty criminal turned Al-Qaeda operative under Al-Saleem, later Hani Salaam's informer
- Jamil Khoury as Marwan Se-Kia, GID operative, security officer of Hani Salaam
- Lubna Azabal as Aisha's sister Cala, unsubtly defiantly toward the West
- Ghali Benlafkih as Aisha's nephew Rowley
- Youssef Srondy as Aisha's nephew Yousef
- Ali Khalil as Zayed Ibishi, CIA asset in Amman, operating in Hoffman's secret side operation, arrested and punished by GID
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