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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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US president Bill Clinton applauds Jordan's King Hussein and Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin after the peace treaty signing at the Wadi Araba Crossing on October 26, 1994. Reuters
DocumentaryJordan and Israel are not at war – but nor are they at peace

The 1994 agreement was an against-the-odds triumph of trust and goodwill. But a year of conflict is casting a shadow over its future

MENAOctober 25, 2024
A residential building in the Kfar Souseh district of Damascus hit by Israeli strikes in February. Israel has expanded attacks on the Syrian capital. AFP
Israel strikes heavily guarded district in Damascus as tension grows

Soldier killed and seven wounded in Israeli air strikes on Damascus and Homs

MENAOctober 24, 2024
Mohammed Hamsho in the People's Assembly, from which he has been removed. Photo: People's Assembly of Syria
Syrian tycoon Mohammed Hamsho ejected from parliament

Mr Hamsho is a central figure in Assad regime's business network and was previously seen as untouchable

MENAOctober 23, 2024
Syrian security troops inspect the site of Monday's air strike on a car in the Mazzeh neighbourhood of Damascus. EPA
Israel hits Beirut-Damascus road after killing Hezbollah financier

Military says it assassinated the leader of the group's financial division and will not allow the militants to 'regroup and rearm'

MENAOctober 22, 2024
Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian meets senior Hamas figure Khaled Meshaal in Doha on October 2. Reuters
Sinwar's death may restore a less pro-Iranian figure as head of Hamas

Khaled Meshaal led Hamas's exit from Syria and sought to keep channels with Arab allies of Washington open

MENAOctober 20, 2024
Latakia, Syria, in February this year. Getty Images
Israel strikes Syrian coastal city of Latakia, Assad's power base

Target said to have been a Hezbollah weapons depot

MENAOctober 17, 2024
Syrians carry flags and a picture of President Bashar Al Assad during a rally marking Independence Day in April last year. AP
Israel's squeeze on Hezbollah puts pressure on Syria's Assad to pivot away from Iran

Silence from Damascus since group's leader was killed signals President has much to worry about

MENAOctober 15, 2024
History professor Mostafa Hamarneh, a member of the Jordanian Senate, and former confidant of the late King Hussein, at his home south of Amman. Khaled Yacoub Oweis / The National
InterviewFormer confidant of Jordan’s King Hussein calls for non-violence to end Israel-Gaza war

Mustafa Hamarneh tells The National that people on both sides who want to co-exist could create a 'paradigm shift'

MENAOctober 11, 2024
The aftermath of a deadly Israeli air strike on a residential building in Mazzeh, Damascus. AFP
Syria says member of security forces killed in Israeli attack on Quneitra

The attack comes a day after an Israeli missile strike on a building in Damascus killed ten people

MENAOctober 09, 2024
People inspect the site of an air strike on Damascus as Israel steps up raids on Syrian targets. EPA
Israeli raids on Syria intensify in pursuit of Hezbollah supply lines

The Israeli military is upping pressure in an attempt to prevent Syria becoming another active front in the fighting

MENAOctober 08, 2024
Flames and smoke rise from Greek-flagged oil tanker Sounion on the Red Sea. Houthi Media / Reuters
ExclusiveJordan counts cost of Red Sea disruption after year of attacks

Houthi militia started attacks in the water way, home to kingdom's only port, shortly after Gaza war began

EconomyOctober 07, 2024
Palestinians look at the destruction after an Israeli air strike on a crowded tent camp housing the displaced in Muwasi, in the southern Gaza Strip, on September 10, 2024. AP
'These scars will last for a very long time': How the Middle East changed in a year

The war in Gaza and Lebanon has changed the region's geopolitics and the lives of its people

MENAOctober 05, 2024
Marwan Muasher, former Jordanian foreign minister, told The National that Israel wants control of Palestinian territories without the people on the land. Reuters
InterviewJordan's first ambassador to Israel warns of threat to kingdom’s stability, one year into Gaza war

Marwan Muasher, who helped negotiate the country’s peace treaty with Israel, says Jordan cannot afford another Palestinian refugee wave

MENAOctober 04, 2024
Hashem Safieddine, senior Hezbollah official and prospective leader, attends the funeral ceremony of Fouad Shukr, a commander of the group, in Beirut's southern suburbs on August 1, 2024. AFP
Hezbollah's likely next leader followed Nasrallah down militant path

Lebanese group says successor to long-time head will be appointed soon

MENASeptember 30, 2024
A Houthis hypersonic missile named Palestine 2 used in Sunday's attack on Israel. Reuters
Houthi attacks on Israel dismissed as propaganda as group presides over hunger crisis

The Houthis have surprised some defence analysts this year with extremely long range missile and drone attacks on Israel

MENASeptember 30, 2024
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