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PIF: The main driver of Saudi Arabia's economic transformation Diana Estefanía Rubio
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PIF: The main driver of Saudi Arabia's economic transformation

The PIF has been the primary driver for meeting the needs of Vision 2030, attracting foreign investments, and enhancing local content by increasing…

Al Majalla - London 17 October , 2024
The notion that the sophistication of Israel’s air defences makes it immune to penetration is now under serious review in the wake of recent attacks by Iran, Hezbollah and other "resistance axis" allies. Axel Rangel García
Politics

Cracks emerge in Israel's much-touted missile defences

The aura of invincibility enjoyed for years by Israel’s air defences suddenly finds itself under intense scrutiny following the recent successes…

Con Coughlin 17 October , 2024
Will simmering Middle East tensions boil over?
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Will simmering Middle East tensions boil over?

Fares Garabet 17 October , 2024
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (R) stands with Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant (L) at the Kerem Shalom border crossing with the Gaza Strip in southern Israel on May 1, 2024. Evelyn Hockstein / AFP
Documents & Memoirs

Full text of US letter to Israel: Let aid into Gaza or face consequences

Israel has been put on official notice by the Biden administration in a recent letter leaked by Barak Ravid, an Israeli journalist who works for…

Al Majalla - London 16 October , 2024

Screams of Gaza, colourful forests, and magical bookstores

AFP
AFP

A woman visits a bookstore in Chengdu, in southwestern China's Sichuan province on October 13, 2024.

AP/Vadim Ghirda
AP/Vadim Ghirda

A young man sits in The Colored Forrest, in the village of Poienari, southern Romania, a project by local artists meant to raise awareness of the large-scale deforestation due to excessive logging, Saturday, October 12, 2024.

Philip FONG / AFP
Philip FONG / AFP

People ride on the Diamond and Flower Ferris wheel during the evening hour at Kasai Rinkai Park in Tokyo on October 14, 2024.

Ishara S. KODIKARA / AFP
Ishara S. KODIKARA / AFP

A monkey is pictured outside the Rangiri Dambulla Cave Temple in Dambulla on October 14, 2024.

DIBYANGSHU SARKAR / AFP
DIBYANGSHU SARKAR / AFP

A young girl dressed as Hindu Goddess 'Durga' sits near the deity's idol during the traditional 'Kumari Puja' as a part of the Durga Puja festival in Kolkata on October 11, 2024.

AP/Ramon Espinosa
AP/Ramon Espinosa

People take photos of the spray from waves crashing against the Malecon seawall, brought by the passing of Hurricane Milton in the Gulf of Mexico, in Havana, Cuba, Wednesday, October 9, 2024.

REUTERS/Ramadan Abed
REUTERS/Ramadan Abed

People react at the site of an Israeli strike on tents sheltering displaced Palestinians in front of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, October 14, 2024.

REUTERS/Ramadan Abed
REUTERS/Ramadan Abed

The grandmother of Palestinian boy Yaman Al-Zaanin, who was born and killed during Israel's war on Gaza, reacts at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, October 14, 2024.

AP/Hassan Ammar
AP/Hassan Ammar

Rescue workers search for victims at the site of Thursday's Israeli air strike in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, October 11, 2024.

Iranian Army office / AFP
Iranian Army office / AFP

Iranian and Omani soldiers take part in a joint in a military exercise at an undisclosed location in Oman on October 10 2024.

Han Kang, winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature Al Majalla
Culture & Social Affairs

South Korean Nobel Laureate Han Kang: ‘Life is a wound’

South Korean writer Han Kang has just won the Nobel Prize for Literature. The judges praised her “intense poetic prose that confronts historical…

Emad al-Ahmad 16 October , 2024
A man walks past a building that was destroyed during an Israeli air strike that targeted the southern Lebanese village of Zeita a day earlier, on October 14, 2024, amid the ongoing war between Israel and Hezbollah. MAHMOUD ZAYYAT / AFP
Politics

Why Israel's war in Lebanon is different this time

Comparisons can certainly be drawn between Israel's current war on Lebanon and its past wars. However, this war's objectives are markedly different…

Ibrahim Hamidi 15 October , 2024
Foreign interference is back ahead of key US election Ewan White
Science & Technology

Foreign interference is back ahead of key US election

This year, around half the world’s population went to the ballot box, with around 50 elections in countries such as Russia, Taiwan, India, Iran, the…

Marco Mossad 15 October , 2024
A look at Hezbollah's potent missile arsenal Diana Estefanía Rubio
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A look at Hezbollah's potent missile arsenal

While Israel’s military capabilities have improved since its last war in Lebanon in 2006, when the Iron Dome defence system didn’t exist yet, so has…

Al Majalla - London 15 October , 2024
Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf (C) waves as he returns to his car after visiting the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted Beirut’s Basta neighbourhood on October 12, 2024. AFP
Politics

Why Iran hesitates to directly take on Israel

Over the past four decades, Iran has steadily expanded its influence by cementing its control over several Arab capitals through its network of proxy…

Badia Fahs 14 October , 2024
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Lina Jaradat
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Attacks on Iran make a nuclear bomb more likely

20 June 2025

Iran's nuclear programme is damaged, but its determination is heightened

Eric Brewer
Michelle Thompson.
Business & Economy

What would happen if Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz?

18 June 2025

The strait carries up to 20% of the world's oil exports at around 20 million barrels of oil each day. Any closure could cost the global economy greatly, even if only for a short time.

Amer Ziab Al-Tamimi
A demonstrator holds a picture of Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, while gathering with others during a rally in solidarity with the government against Israel's attacks on Iran on June 14, 2025. ATTA KENARE / AFP
Politics

Iran is further from regime change than Israel thinks

17 June 2025

Israel sees an opportunity to eliminate a strategic regional rival, but the future course of events primarily hinges on what Trump decides to do next

Houssam Itani
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei addresses Iranians on the occasion of the 36th anniversary of the death of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (portrait), in Tehran on June 4, 2025. KHAMENEI.IR / AFP
Profiles

Ali Khamenei: the guardian of Iran's strategic patience doctrine

21 June 2025

For decades, Iran's supreme leader—first Khomeini, then Khamenei—pursued a strategy of backing regional militias to fight Israel, but with the 'resistance axis' in tatters, Iran is left to fight alone

Arash Azizi
Eduardo Ramon
Politics

How Israel pulled off its unprecedented strike on Iran

18 June 2025

Years of painstaking intelligence work went into the operation that activated vast networks of operatives and involved multiple layers of subterfuge

Michael Horowitz

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