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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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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
Imad Adwan was arrested in April on charges of smuggling guns into the occupied West Bank
Jordanian MP charged with smuggling guns into West Bank goes on trial

Imad Adwan was arrested by Israeli authorities and deported to Jordan for trial

JordanSeptember 20, 2023
Household water tanks in Amman, Jordan. The kingdom's Water Ministry says the less consumers use, the more their subsidy will be protected. Reuters
Jordan announces cuts in water subsidies

Move is politically sensitive in supply scarce kingdom and will affect households and businesses, not farmers

MENASeptember 18, 2023
A demonstrator holds up sign in Suweida's main square during protests against Syrian President Bashar Al Assad's government. Photo: Suhail Thubian
Syria's Druze protest movement poses quandary for Al Assad

The transnational, close-knit nature of the minority sect makes it a tough political nut to crack

MENASeptember 15, 2023
Jordanian soldiers patrol along the border with Syria to prevent drug trafficking. AFP
Major challenges face Jordan's anti-narcotics border security plans

Jordan is the main conduit for drugs from Syria to inner Arabia

MENASeptember 13, 2023
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, right, and Hussein Al Sheikh in Ramallah this year. EPA
Abbas heir apparent in Amman as US seeks more Arab normalisation

Hussein Al Sheikh was in Riyadh, where he met American officials pursuing Saudi-Israeli deal

MENASeptember 11, 2023
An anti-Russian mural in the town of Binnish in the rebel-held north-western province of Idlib, on August 25, 2023. AFP
Violence in Syria's Idlib undermines Russian-Turkish deal

President Bashar Al Assad's loyalists have been trying to recapture a strategic hill from militants

MENASeptember 10, 2023
Arab tribal fighters in the countryside of Aleppo, near the front with areas held by a Kurdish dominated militia. Rami Al Sayed for The National
US-backed militia takes back east Syria after quelling insurgency

Washington must stop 'suppression' of Arabs in Kurdish dominated area, says Turkish Foreign Minister

MENASeptember 07, 2023
Turkey-backed fighters on the Mahsali and Arab Hasan frontline in north-east Syria fighting Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces this week. AFP
Deal to end Arab tribal insurgency against US allies in Syria

Kurdish-led militia enters stronghold of tribal leader who challenged Kurdish control

MENASeptember 06, 2023
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