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Business News > Mint Authors > Omar Abdel Baqui

Omar Abdel Baqui

ARTICLES BY OMAR ABDEL BAQUI

This picture taken from the Israeli side of the border with the Gaza Strip shows smoke plumes rising following explosions inside the Palestinian territory on April 27, 2025. (Photo by Menahem KAHANA / AFP) (AFP)

Israel has beaten back its enemies. The war is now rocking its partners.

5 min read . 27 Apr 2025

Displaced Palestinians return to their homes in the northern Gaza Strip, following Israel's decision to allow thousands of them to go back for the first time since the early weeks of the 15-month war with Hamas, Monday, Jan. 27, 2025. (AP Photo)

Palestinians stream back to northern Gaza after hostage-release breakthrough

4 min read . 27 Jan 2025

Members of the Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Palestinian group Hamas, take part in a parade as they celebrate a ceasefire agreement between Hamas and Israel in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, Sunday, Jan. 19, 2025. (AP Photo)

Hamas is effectively back in control in Gaza

6 min read . 21 Jan 2025

Almost two-thirds of the population of the Balata camp in the West Bank is under 25. Photographs by Samar Hazboun for WSJ

What the end of UNRWA would mean for Palestinians

6 min read . 03 Jan 2025

Couples danced and kissed, friends hugged, DJs played revolutionary songs, and partygoers chanted anti-Assad slogans at the top of their lungs. (AFP)

Damascus uncorked: Syria throws a new year’s party for the ages

3 min read . 02 Jan 2025

The Al-Hamidiyah Souq, one of the main economic arteries of Damascus, was crowded on Sunday. (Photographs by Gabriel Ferneini for WSJ)

Syria looks to pick up the pieces of its shattered economy

6 min read . 30 Dec 2024

Christians demonstrated in Damascus after a Christmas tree was set ablaze by members of the armed forces. (Photo by Louai Beshara / AFP) (AFP)

Deadly ambush, protests challenge Syrian leaders’ new power

2 min read . 26 Dec 2024

Islamist-led rebels took Damascus in a lightning offensive on 8 December, ousting president Bashar al-Assad and ending five decades of Baath rule in Syria. (AFP)

The West auditions Syria’s new leaders

5 min read . 21 Dec 2024

Smoke rises amid fighting between opposition factions and Syrian government troops in Majdaliya, Aleppo countryside, Syria. (AP)

Syrian rebels seize territory from government in renewed offensive

2 min read . 29 Nov 2024

The Al-Amari refugee camp near Ramallah, West Bank. (WSJ)

The West Bank is on the edge of economic collapse

6 min read . 05 Nov 2024

A Lebanese soldier by the site of an Israeli strike in Beirut’s southern suburbs. (Photo: Manu Brabo for WSJ)

Lebanon’s military can barely fight—even after $3 billion from the US

5 min read . 31 Oct 2024

US Secretary of Treasury Janet Yellen. (AFP)

Israel urged by Yellen to help Palestinian economy function

4 min read . 28 Oct 2024

Palestinians gather around the rubble of the Maghazi Camp Services Club building following an Israeli strike on the Maghazi refugee camp in the Gaza Strip on 24 October 24. (AFP)

Israel’s endgame in Gaza: Finish off Hamas where the war started

5 min read . 25 Oct 2024

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators hold pictures of late Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar during a protest condemning the killing of Sinwar, in Istanbul, Turkey, October 20, 2024. REUTERS/Murad Sezer (REUTERS)

In death, Hamas leader may have won wider support than when he was alive

6 min read . 21 Oct 2024

The latest Israeli offensive in Gaza is raising alarm bells among humanitarian organizations, who say it has become significantly harder to feed and treat the population remaining in the north.. REUTERS/Hatem Khaled TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY (REUTERS)

Exhausted Gazans defy evacuation orders as Israel presses new offensive

5 min read . 15 Oct 2024

The scene of a reported Israeli air strike, in the Mazzeh suburb on the western outskirts of Syria's capital Damascus on October 8, 2024. The Syrian defence ministry said seven people, including women and children, were killed in an Israeli air strike on a residential building in Damascus. (Photo: AFP)

Israel strikes Damascus, targeting Hezbollah weapons smuggler

2 min read . 09 Oct 2024

Smoke rises from southern Lebanon following Israeli strikes amid cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel. (REUTERS)

Israel boosts troops on Lebanon border, signals maritime operation

2 min read . 08 Oct 2024

People gathering outside the American University of Beirut Medical Center as many were wounded when pagers exploded across Lebanon on Tuesday. (Reuters)

How a overt attack against Hezbollah unfolded across Lebanon’s streets and malls

5 min read . 19 Sep 2024

Palestinians receive United Nations food aid from a warehouse in Gaza City. (AFP/Getty Images)

After a year without fresh food, a sudden reprieve in Gaza: Apples

4 min read . 15 Sep 2024

Every school in Gaza is closed, according to the United Nations. (Reuters)

Tents and shelters become classrooms as Gaza children return to learning

3 min read . 11 Sep 2024