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Khaled Yacoub Oweis

Khaled Yacoub Oweis

Jordan Correspondent
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Khaled has been a journalist for 25 years, mostly with Reuters in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and London. He covered the outbreak of Arab uprisings in Yemen and Syria, Hafez Al Assad's rule, Iraq under Saddam Hussein and was war correspondent in Baghdad during the 2003 US invasion. He joined The National as Chief Foreign Writer in 2019 before moving to Amman. He was a Visiting Fellow for more than three years at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs in Berlin.
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Syrian President Ahmad Al Shara, left, and Iraqi Prime Minister Ali Al Zaidi meeting in New York. Iraqi Prime Minister's Office
Syria's Al Shara and Iraq's Al Zaidi hold first meeting

US has pushed Baghdad and Damascus towards closer co-operation amid regional turmoil

MENASeptember 23, 2026
Tourists ride camels in Palmyra, a Unesco World Heritage Site in Syria. AFP
Syria wants its tourists to return – but what will bring them back?

At his family's Royal Semiramis Hotel in Damascus, Mourhaf Nazha is busily checking in deal-making business executives and homecoming Syrians. For now, though, holidaymakers are staying away

MENASeptember 04, 2026
Lebanese soldiers patrol in a southern village. Lebanon and Syria are developing closer security ties after years of tension. AFP
From phone taps to arrests: Inside Lebanon and Syria's security partnership

Move against 'Assad-linked plotters' offers rare window into growing security partnership between Beirut and Damascus

MENASeptember 04, 2026
Jordanian police stand guard near the American embassy in Amman. Getty images
What missiles? Jordanians shrug off US-Iran war and press on with everyday life

People are carrying on as normal while Iran targets bases housing US troops in the kingdom

MENAAugust 31, 2026
An Israeli tank near the ceasefire line between the occupied Golan Heights and mainland Syria. Reuters
Israel strikes Syria and Lebanon despite US-brokered diplomacy

Israeli forces closing in on Ali Al Taher area in southern Lebanon

MENAAugust 27, 2026
Members of an SDF brigade at a funeral for three Kurdish fighters killed in Aleppo, Syria. AFP
AnalysisHow pressure and months of stalling finally ended in SDF’s dissolution in Syria

Prolonged American pressure made it futile for Syrian Democratic Forces to keep going, sources say

MENAAugust 26, 2026
Syrian President Ahmad Al Shara. AFP
Syria's secret talks with Israel revealed as US drops terror designation

US move bolsters Al Shara government as Damascus considers once-unthinkable deal with Israel

MENAAugust 25, 2026
Abu Al Duhur base near Aleppo. Reuters
Israel-Turkey rivalry in Syria intensifies after base attack

Abu Al Duhur base near Aleppo seen as a major military asset

MENAAugust 20, 2026
A funeral procession for Mohammad Ghamira departs a hospital in Latakia. Photo: Sana
Seven Syrian security personnel arrested after released detainee dies

Civil defence volunteer Mohammad Ghamira allegedly beaten at police station

MENAAugust 17, 2026
Atif Najib, former political intelligence commander and a maternal cousin of Bashar Al Assad, appears in court in Damascus. AFP
Assad has been sentenced - but 3,500 former regime figures remain at large

Syrian official says 40 per cent of targets apprehended - with some of the rest spared prosecution

MENAAugust 13, 2026
Mahmoud Eisa was an early victim of convicted Syrian torturer Atef Najib. Mahmoud Eisa / EPA
Exclusive'I fainted with every electric shock': Syrian dissident tells of torture at hands of condemned Assad cousin

Mahmoud Eisa recalls being tortured by Atif Najib, who now faces death by hanging after landmark Syrian trial

MENAAugust 12, 2026
Russian presence has been sharply scaled back from Syria's Hmeimim airbase in Latakia province since December. AFP
AnalysisSyria and Russia save face with deal on military bases

With bases to be converted into 'training centres', Moscow preserves access while Damascus regains authority over closed coastal zones

MENAAugust 11, 2026
Youssef Qablawi, left, of the Syrian Petroleum Company, signs deal in Washington with Bassem Nasr, head of IRaq's Basra Oil Company, to revive Kirkuk-Baniyas oil pipeline. Photo: SANA
How regional turmoil and US pressure have drawn Iraq and Syria closer together

Strait of Hormuz showdown has turned Syria into an important partner – even for Iraq

MENAAugust 07, 2026
The foreign ministers of Pakistan, Ishaq Dar; Saudi Arabia, Prince Faisal bin Farhan; Tunisia, Mohamed Nafti; Iraq, Fuad Hussein; Somalia, Abdisalam Abdi Ali; Palestine, Varsen Aghabekian; Egypt, Badr Abdelatty; Algeria, Ahmed Attaf; Turkey, Hakan Fidan; and Qatar Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman, who is also Prime Minister in Amman on Wednesday. They were joined by Moroccan Justice Minister Abdellatif Ouahbi, Malaysian Foreign Ministry representative Ahmad Muhamad and Indonesian Foreign Vice Minister Arrmanatha Nasir. Reuters
Arab and Muslim states condemn Israel's actions at Al Aqsa

Foreign ministers met in Jordan to discuss Israeli violations at one of Islam's holiest sites

MENAAugust 05, 2026
Syrian President Ahmad Al Shara, centre left, receives Mazloum Abdi, head of the SDF, centre right, in Damascus. Sana
Syria's Al Shara meets Kurdish leader Abdi as regional dynamics strengthen Damascus

Two discussed stalled deal under which SDF would effectively be dissolved

MENAAugust 04, 2026
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