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In this photo taken on October 13, 2021, an employee connects solar cells at the Vikram Solar manufacturing plant in Oragadam, in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. AFP
Business & Economy

India rising: charting success in global trade

In March, India’s external affairs minister, S. Jaishankar, addressed the UK’s business community at an event in Manchester. He delivered a clear…

Nazareth Seferian 19 May , 2025
Marco Rubio: from Florida senator to top Trump official Dominic Bodden
Profiles

Marco Rubio: from Florida senator to top Trump official

The emergence of Marco Rubio, once a fierce critic of US President Donald Trump, as arguably the most influential figure in the new US administration…

Con Coughlin 19 May , 2025
Opinion

The lifting of Syria sanctions must be followed by real reforms

President Trump’s surprise decision to lift US sanctions on Syria marks a potentially transformative moment for a country long cut off from the…

Haid Haid 19 May , 2025
Trump's move to lift Syria sanctions begs more questions than answers Al Majalla
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Trump's move to lift Syria sanctions begs more questions than answers

On 13 May 2025, President Donald Trump stunned the world in Riyadh when he announced that the US would lift all sanctions on Syria—a nation reeling…

Matt Zweig 19 May , 2025
Israel's war on Gaza: endless strikes and death
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Israel's war on Gaza: endless strikes and death

Fares Garabet 19 May , 2025
With his Syria gamble, Trump opens a door Lina Jaradat
Politics

With his Syria gamble, Trump opens a door

The meeting in Riyadh of presidents Donald Trump and Ahmed al-Sharaa followed the US leader's announcement that sanctions on Syria would end. These…

Frederic C. Hof 18 May , 2025
Israeli spy Eli Cohen.
Documents & Memoirs

This day in history: Israeli spy Eli Cohen executed in Damascus

On this day in 1965, Israeli spy Eli Cohen was executed by hanging in Marjeh Square in the heart of downtown Damascus. His execution verdict was…

Sami Moubayed 18 May , 2025
Former Libyan foreign minister, Mohammed al-Dairi AFP
Politics

Mohammed al-Dairi: Libyan state-building killed by corruption and division

In 2011, Libyans rose up like others in the region to topple the regime of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, who came to power in a coup 42 years earlier, in…

Johaina Khaldieh 17 May , 2025
Tunisian writer Amira Ghenim Franco Origlia/Getty Images
Culture & Social Affairs

Amira Ghenim on reimagining Tunisian history through fiction

Tunisian writer and academic Amira Ghenim’s novel Nazelet Dar Al-Akaber (A Calamity at the House of the Nobles) continues to earn international…

Asmahan Al-Sha’abouni 17 May , 2025
A handout picture provided by the Saudi Royal Palace shows Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (R) welcoming US President Donald Trump (L) upon his arrival in Riyadh on May 13, 2025. BANDAR AL-JALOUD / Saudi Royal Palace / AFP
Politics

The strategic rationale for upgraded US-Saudi defence ties

The headlines of multiple economic and business deals from the three stops on US President Donald Trump’s trip to the Middle East in the opening…

Brian Katulis 17 May , 2025
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Israel's race for regime change in Iran

03 March 2026

Israel knows its military operation cannot last forever, so it is racing to either kill or fatally wound the Islamic Republic before the clock runs out

Michael Horowitz
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Oil prices soar as US-Iran war sparks supply worries

04 March 2026

European gas prices have jumped by 30% after some big GCC oil and gas producers cut supplies, and now a vital maritime trade route is being threatened. The stakes have seldom been higher.

Thuraya Shahin
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Khamenei's killing opens up a strategic abyss

01 March 2026

Gulf states' delicate balancing act—maintaining security partnerships with the US while cautiously reopening channels to Iran—has been shattered

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The displaced Palestinian Abu Mustafa family sits together as they break the dawn-to-dusk Ramadan fast during Iftar in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on 26 February 2026. Photo by EYAD BABA / AFP
Culture & Social Affairs

Ramadan in Gaza: food scarcity compounds suffering

03 March 2026

The iftar table, if it still exists, no longer represents joy, but anxiety and scarcity

Hala Al-Naji
Iranian nationals arrive in Turkey after passing through the Razi-Kapiköy border crossing in Van, north-eastern Türkiye, on 3 March 2026. ALI IHSAN OZTURK / AFP
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Türkiye fears spillover effects of US-Iran war

05 March 2026

Ankara fears a refugee influx, economic disruption, and a Kurdish dimension as the US and Israel escalate their attacks

Omer Onhon

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