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Khaled Yacoub Oweis

Khaled Yacoub Oweis

Jordan Correspondent
Jordan
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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Mr Khalaf at his shop on Omar Khayyam street in downtown Amman. Photo: Khaled Yacoub Oweis / The National
Threads and customers change for Amman fabric mender

Kamal Khalaf learnt the delicate craft of darning in pre-civil war Beirut

WeekendJanuary 12, 2024
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, left, with Egypt's President Abdel Fattah El Sisi in Cairo. AFP
Jordan's king discusses Gaza future with Egypt and Palestine leaders

The three leaders, who met in Aqaba, want an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Hamas

Palestine-IsraelJanuary 10, 2024
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is on a week-long trip to countries across the region. Reuters
US seeks conflict de-escalation as Blinken lands in Israel

Secretary of State has already visited several regional capitals, as Middle East stands on the precipice of wider war

MENAJanuary 08, 2024
Riad Al Turk, in Damascus, 2009.
Riad Al Turk, Syrian dissident who 'did not keep silent', dies in exile

Opponent of President Bashar Al Assad was held underground for years in Damascus as a political prisoner

MENAJanuary 02, 2024
Pupils at a school in Irbid, Jordan. Some teachers in the country have taken jobs abroad, contributing to a widespread brain drain. Reuters
Teachers in Middle East seek ways to tackle rising cost of living

Educators in some parts of the region have been forced to take up second or third jobs as inflation devalues salaries

MENADecember 29, 2023
Suspected Syrian smugglers who the Jordanian military says it arrested after a border shoot-out on Monday. Petra News Agency
Escalation of drug war on Jordan-Syria border linked to Hezbollah

Smugglers who tried to storm the Jordanian border were joined by armed militants with ties to Iran-backed group, security sources say

JordanDecember 20, 2023
Captagon pills are the mainstay of narcotics smuggling from southern Syria to Jordan. AFP
Jordanian jets target drug smugglers in Syria raids

Three civilians were killed in the attacks, according to the Suwayda 24 network in Syria

JordanDecember 19, 2023
An Israeli soldier in southern Israel looks through binoculars as smoke rises from Gaza Strip. EPA
Is the Israel-Gaza war killing the two-state solution?

The conflict has brought renewed calls for a lasting solution but pushed Israelis and Palestinians farther apart

Palestine-IsraelDecember 18, 2023
A checkpoint in the Saida Zeinab suburb of Damascus. Israel has launched a series of strikes on Syria since the outbreak of the Gaza war. Reuters
Israel attacks Hezbollah again in Syria

Attacks wound two soldiers as Israeli operations against militants in the country increase

SyriaDecember 18, 2023
King Abdullah II of Jordan delivers a speech during the Global Refugee Forum, in Geneva on December 13, 2023. AFP
King Abdullah says Gaza crisis veils plight of existing refugees

Situation precarious for refugees and their hosts in Jordan, monarch tells Global Refugee Forum

Palestine-IsraelDecember 13, 2023
What appear to be white phosphorus incendiaries fall during Syrian regime bombing on the rebel town of Douma, near Damascus, in 2018. AFP
Civilians suffered brunt of white phosphorus attacks in Syrian war

Before Israel's reported use of the weapon in Lebanon and Gaza, Russia and Bashar Al Assad's forces used it on Syrian civilians

Palestine-IsraelDecember 13, 2023
A shuttered shop in Amman on Monday, as a strike in support of Gaza was widely observed throughout Jordan. Reuters
Middle East response to strike supporting Gaza limited to Jordan

Palestinian factions had called for a global strike in protest against Israel’s war in Gaza

JordanDecember 11, 2023
Palestinians fleeing their homes in Gaza, during a pause in the fighting last month. AP
Qatari PM: Israel and Hamas lack desire for new prisoner exchange

Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani tells Doha Forum ‘opening is narrower’ for another Gaza deal

Palestine-IsraelDecember 10, 2023
A Houthi militiaman on Yemen's Red Sea shore. EPA
Houthi Red Sea threat brings new front to Gaza war

No one wants to test the capabilities of the Iran-backed militia, which says it is helping Hamas

Palestine-IsraelDecember 07, 2023
The former rebel suburb of Douma, the site of a suspected chemical weapons attack, near Damascus, on April 16, 2018. AP
Damascus again in sights of chemical weapons watchdog

Experts accuse Syrian military of still possessing highly destructive chemical weapons

MENADecember 04, 2023
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