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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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Iranian worshippers carry a banner with flags of Hezbollah as they attend a pro-Palestinian rally in Tehran on October 13. AP
Suspicion over Iran's role in Hamas attack may linger for years

Iran's perennial avoidance of direct involvement produces questions over its level of culpability in the deadly October 7 attack in Israel

Palestine-IsraelOctober 17, 2023
Palestinians, some with foreign passports hoping to cross into Egypt, waiting for aid at the Rafah crossing in the southern Gaza Strip. AFP
Egypt and Jordan reject talk of mass relocation of Palestinians

Issue has risen to the top of the diplomatic and security agendas of the two US allies

Palestine-IsraelOctober 16, 2023
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian with Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Doha on Saturday. AFP
Iran warns Israel of escalation if it fails to end aggression

Tehran warns of changes in dynamics in the Middle East as a result of the conflict

Palestine-IsraelOctober 15, 2023
Baghdad-based taxi driver Wissam Mohammed Abbas, 35, finds himself at the epicentre of a prolonged economic dilemma. Sinan Mahmoud / The National
Taxi drivers in the Middle East struggle amid soaring costs

From increasing fuel prices and mounting maintenance costs to the encroaching influence of ride-sharing services, drivers making as little as $7 a day are struggling to make ends meet

MENAOctober 15, 2023
Gaza camp, north of Amman, is home to 50,000 Palestinian refugees. Amy McConaghy / The National
Jordan worried about Gaza violence spreading to its borders

Diplomats say outright war between Israel and Palestinians could expand to West Bank, creating 'nightmare scenario' for Amman

MENAOctober 14, 2023
Protesters take part in an anti-Israeli demonstration in Tahrir Square in Baghdad. AFP
Protesters across Middle East vent anger over Israel's attack on Gaza

Crowds chant expressions of solidarity with Palestinians at rallies from Iraq to Lebanon

Palestine-IsraelOctober 13, 2023
Jordan's King Abdullah II meets with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Amman, Jordan October 13, 2023. Royal Hashemite Court/via Reuters
Jordan's King Abdullah and Blinken discuss Gaza refugee crisis

The US Secretary of State also met Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Amman

Palestine-IsraelOctober 13, 2023
Palestinians weep in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip on October 12, 2023. AFP
US accused of failing to pursue ceasefire in Gaza

America appears more concerned about the trajectory of the war than stopping it, western official says

MENAOctober 12, 2023
Jordanians wave Palestinian flags in a show of support for Gaza in Amman on Tuesday. AFP
Jordan's King Abdullah calls for two-state solution to Israel-Gaza war

A pro-Palestinian demonstration led by the Muslim Brotherhood was organised in Amman

JordanOctober 11, 2023
Palestinian women at an Islamic Jihad rally in Gaza city on October 6. EPA
Hamas has a powerful junior partner in Palestinian Islamic Jihad

The group, seen as one of the most lethal proxies of Iran, claims to have taken 30 hostages in Saturday's attack

Palestine-IsraelOctober 11, 2023
Gaza refugee camp in Jordan, 2020. Amy McConaghy / The National
Gaza-Israel war: Many Palestinian refugees in Jordan hope for Hamas victory

At the Gaza camp north of Amman, residents sense that the conflict has changed in their favour

MENAOctober 08, 2023
Syria's border with Lebanon, a country unwilling to accept more Syrian refugees. EPA
One man's missed chance to escape Assad's Syria

Yasser Hamad remains in nation mired in simmering conflict and economic ruin, despite his siblings fleeing

MENAOctober 07, 2023
Syrian painter and former political prisoner Suhail Thebian holding a painting by a fellow artist, at a demonstration in the south-western governorate of Suweida. Photo: Suhail Thubian
Art as instrument of civil obedience in Syria's Suweida

Non-violence has become a theme, expressed artistically in the mostly Druze area

MENAOctober 05, 2023
Ultra-Orthodox Jews pray during the week-long Jewish holiday of Sukkot, next to one of the gates to Al Aqsa Mosque compound. AP
West Bank on edge as Jordan criticises Al Aqsa incursions

Jewish holiday of Sukkot has registered an increase in number of Jews entering Al Aqsa, as well as attacks against Christians and violent Israeli incursions into West Bank

MENAOctober 03, 2023
Some families in Jordan are said to be considering keeping their children from school so they don't receive the measles vaccine. AFP
Vaccine rumours in Jordan fuel rising fears of measles epidemic

Health officials scotch ‘unsafe’ rumours over Indian-manufactured vaccine scheduled for November

MENAOctober 02, 2023
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