Omar Abdel-Baqui
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Middle East correspondent @WSJ // Email: [email protected] / Signal: omarabdelb.10
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I interviewed young Palestinians about their lives and how they view the future. Read their powerful stories and see their faces, photographed by @thabjouqa, in @WSJ:
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Lebanon’s army has largely disarmed Hezbollah in its southern strongholds—in part with the help of Israeli intelligence. U.S. and Israeli officials say they have been pleasantly surprised by the progress. By me and @adamchams for @WSJ:
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The progress is helping keep a fragile cease-fire intact. The question is how far will it go.
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RT @rmslim: Insightful analysis by @omarabdelb & @adamchams: #Lebanese army has largely disarmed #Hezbollah in its southern strongholds….
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The progress is helping keep a fragile cease-fire intact. The question is how far will it go.
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The battle over Beirut's airport
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The militant group has used Lebanon’s only commercial airport as a smuggling channel and a lever to assert its dominance in the country.
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RT @BroderickM_: Was pleased to help the WSJ with this article on foreign jihadists in Syria. These muhajireen played an important role in….
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Syria’s new leaders have to figure out what to do with thousands of foreign fighters in their ranks, whom many in the country fear and suspect were involved in a recent wave of ethnic killings. My dispatch from Damascus for @WSJ
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Up to 10,000 fighters lent muscle during the overthrow of the Assad regime. But their hard-line interpretations of Sunni Islam make them a liability for the new rulers.
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RT @Mucagcebe: The latest from @omarabdelb who talked with foreign fighters in Syria. It’s a great work. “Some foreign fighters have been….
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Up to 10,000 fighters lent muscle during the overthrow of the Assad regime. But their hard-line interpretations of Sunni Islam make them a liability for the new rulers.
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RT @rmslim: Smart analysis by @omarabdelb @adamchams: #Lebanese authorities said they arrested several people who launched rockets toward….
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The government’s authority has grown after Israeli strikes battered Hezbollah’s top leadership and devastated its ranks and arsenal.
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RT @jmalsin: “Welcome back. This is your home.” Syrian Jews return to Damascus after the fall of the Assad regime. // @omarabdelb
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Émigrés hope the battered country—sometimes a haven, sometimes a persecutor—can again be home under the new government.
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Israeli police have raided the best-known Palestinian-owned bookshop in Jerusalem and detained its two owners. via @guardian.
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Raid on Educational Bookshop branches described by rights groups as attempt to create ‘culture of fear’ among Palestinian intellectuals
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RT @SecurityContext: 📉 "Syria Looks to Pick Up the Pieces of Its Shattered Economy" by @omarabdelb including quotations by @omardahi (@WSJ)….
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The country’s inexperienced leaders are trying to figure out how to revive an economy decimated by sanctions and years of conflict.
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RT @elvank: “. The Hamas presence on the ground armed is a slap in the face to the Israeli government and army,” said Gershon Baskin, a for….
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After Israeli troops stood down when a cease-fire came into effect in the Gaza Strip, Hamas began sending thousands of its forces into the streets in a show of force.
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RT @AnatPeled1: Israeli settlers took to online chat groups to follow the movements of released prisoners and plot their attacks on Palesti….
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Two nights of armed attacks on Palestinian villages in the West Bank have left homes destroyed and dozens injured.
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RT @DavidSCloud: In Jabalia, on Oct 31, 2023, for instance:.
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A Wall Street Journal investigation found a mix of intentional tactics and unintended consequences contributed to one of the deadliest bombings of the Gaza war.
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RT @joshua_landis: Syria’s Alawites, the Muslim sect of the deposed Assad dynasty, say they fear discrimination and attacks under the count….
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They say disparate violent incidents in the past two months—including alleged extrajudicial killings and the destruction of a religious shrine—are beginning to resemble a pattern of anti-Alawite acts.
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Syria’s Alawites, the Muslim sect of the deposed Assad dynasty, say they fear discrimination and attacks under the country’s new Islamist government
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They say disparate violent incidents in the past two months—including alleged extrajudicial killings and the destruction of a religious shrine—are beginning to resemble a pattern of anti-Alawite acts.
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RT @WSJ: The people of Syria said good riddance in the past month to the dictatorship that ruled for half a century. And when the clock str….
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People set aside divisions and anxiety about the future to mark a once-in-a-lifetime moment of renewal.
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“Syria lives, the regime has fallen!” young Syrians standing on chairs chanted in a packed Damascus bar. They held revolutionary flags and cursed the old regime’s deposed ruler: “A black year for you, Bashar. A sweet year for the revolutionaries!”
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People set aside divisions and anxiety about the future to mark a once-in-a-lifetime moment of renewal.
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RT @WSJ: More than a decade of civil war left Syria’s economy in shambles. Now, as the country’s new leaders seek to rebuild, they are conf….
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The country’s inexperienced leaders are trying to figure out how to revive an economy decimated by sanctions and years of conflict.
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Syria Looks to Pick Up the Pieces of Its Shattered Economy // My dispatch from Damascus for @WSJ
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The country’s inexperienced leaders are trying to figure out how to revive an economy decimated by sanctions and years of conflict.
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