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PKK guerrillas scan for firing positions as they conduct military exercises in the mountains of northern Iraq's Kurdish autonomous region, 18 November 2006. DAVID FURST / AFP
Politics

What next after historic PKK decision to disband?

The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group, which has been locked in bloody conflict with Türkiye for more than four decades, made a…

Omer Onhon 11 May , 2025
Kashmiri men react after the ceasefire announcement between India and Pakistan, in Srinagar May 10, 2025. REUTERS/Sharafat Ali
Politics

A nerve-wracking ceasefire holds between India and Pakistan—for now

Just as India's showdown with Pakistan was spiralling out of control, it seems to be calming down. After four days of escalating clashes, culminating…

The Economist 11 May , 2025
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Business & Economy

Trump's 'big' agenda in Saudi Arabia

US President Donald Trump is due to visit Saudi Arabia on 13 May, marking a significant moment in the historic partnership between the two countries…

Maher Chmaytelli 11 May , 2025
Late Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser and Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi arrive together at the Arab Summit venue in Rabat on December 23, 1969. AFP
Documents & Memoirs

A 50-year-old recording sheds light on Egypt's position toward Israel today

A decades-old audio recording made at a pivotal moment in the history of the Middle East has recently come to light, and it has a direct bearing on…

Amr Emam 11 May , 2025
Brig. Gen. Mohammed al-Jassim and some of his officers in Sheikh al-Hadid in the Afrin district of northern Syria. April 13, 2025. Shelly Kittleson
Politics

Much-maligned Syrian commander rebuts massacre claims

Afrin, Syria: “Our men didn’t even enter Jableh,” claimed Brigadier General Mohammed al-Jassim during an extensive interview with Al Majalla on his…

Shelly Kittleson 10 May , 2025
Chairs and tables are‬‭ scattered at the site of a suspected militant‬ attack on tourists in Baisaran near Pahalgam in south Kashmir's Anantnag district,‬ on April 24, 2025. Sajjad HUSSAIN / AFP
Politics

How India and Pakistan can pull back from the brink

India and Pakistan are once again at each other’s throats. Following a terrorist attack in Indian-administered Kashmir on 22 April, New Delhi…

Ravi Agrawal 10 May , 2025
Opinion

Trading places: China and the US swap positions on free trade

It is one of history’s great ironies. Washington has become an opponent of the global free trade system it once led, turning to tariffs and…

Khaled Kassar 10 May , 2025
22-year-old art degree graduate Karim Naamani Ibrahim Totanji
Culture & Social Affairs

Cinematheque Beirut gives Lebanon’s film community a space to thrive

A 22-year-old art degree graduate is immersed in a sea of finely rolled paper cylinders. They know the addresses, classifications, and precise…

Ibrahim Tutunji 10 May , 2025
Newly elected Pope Leo XIV, Robert Prevost, from the main central loggia balcony of St. Peter's Basilica for the first time, after the cardinals ended the conclave, in the Vatican, on May 8, 2025. Alberto PIZZOLI / AFP
Profiles

Leo XIV: Habemus Papam, we have a pope!

The election of Robert Prevost as the new head of the Catholic Church, where he has decided to take the name Pope Leo XIV, is likely to herald a new…

Con Coughlin 09 May , 2025
US-Houthi ceasefire fuels Israeli fears of an Iran deal Lina Jaradat
Politics

US-Houthi ceasefire fuels Israeli fears of an Iran deal

Almost a decade ago, as I visited an embassy in Israel to brief diplomats on the security situation in the Middle East, my colleague and I were asked…

Michael Horowitz 08 May , 2025
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Eduardo Ramon
Politics

Trump has lost the Iran war, but how badly?

20 April 2026

While all the effects of this conflict may take time to fully realise, short and medium-term signs expose the limits of US power and see America's rivals benefiting

Christopher Phillips
Jason Lyon
Business & Economy

The Iran war is reshaping the China-Gulf economic model

21 April 2026

Closing the Strait of Hormuz has shown how the Gulf should shift from an oil-export model to a digital and distribution hub. Will this trigger the long-delayed free trade agreement with China?

Charbel Barakat
Pete Reynolds
Politics

Lebanon and Israel: negotiations and the end of Hezbollah

23 April 2026

Building on the ten-day ceasefire announced by US President Donald Trump, time will tell if these talks are a one-off or the beginning of a different path for Lebanon.

Al Majalla - London
Grace Russell
Science & Technology

Saving the soldiers: robots as Ukraine’s new weapon

22 April 2026

The war in Ukraine is becoming an open laboratory for testing advanced military technologies that may yet redefine the very meaning of combat

Marco Mossad
Nesma Moharam
Culture & Social Affairs

New book tackles the fading art of Koranic recitation

20 April 2026

Egyptian heritage researcher Haytham Abu Zayd sheds light on how the art form grew, excelled, and then declined over the years and ends by offering a path to revival

Fadi El-Abdallah

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