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Bedouin families who left Sweida take a shelter at a school in the village of El Sahoah in Deraa Governorate, Syria, July 28, 2025. Yamam Al Shaar / Reuters
Politics

Sweida violence: a good day for Israel, a bad day for Syria

President Ahmad al-Sharaa enjoyed a honeymoon of acceptance in the weeks and months after he led his fighters into Damascus, after defeating the…

Majed Kayali 29 July , 2025
Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen talks to the media as she arrives at the European headquarters for the EU-Western Balkans summit, in Brussels, on December 14, 2023. John Thys/AFP
Profiles

Standing up to Trump: Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen

When the Kingdom of Denmark took over the rotating presidency of the EU Council on 1 July, its Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen was honest and open,…

Con Coughlin 29 July , 2025
Good to see that manners haven't died a death in Gaza Fares Garabet
Cartoons

Good to see that manners haven't died a death in Gaza

Fares Garabet 28 July , 2025
Israeli soldiers inside a military aircraft flying over the Gaza Strip on July 27, 2025. Israeli Defence Forces / AFP
Politics

Countering the Israeli quest for regional domination

Israel has always wanted to reshape the Middle East to serve its interests. It has tried to do so through domination rather than cooperation…

Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy 28 July , 2025
Saudi Arabia's Stock Exchange (Tadawul) in the capital, Riyadh. AFP
Business & Economy

How Saudi Arabia is quietly becoming an important financial hub

In 2020, there were just 14 financial technology (fintech) companies in Saudi Arabia. Today, there is 261. In just five years, the sector has seen a…

Abdel-Rahman Ayas 28 July , 2025
Starlink executives are exploring whether a licence could be granted in Lebanon, but talks may have slowed in the country's political and legal morass. Shutterstock
Business & Economy

Can Starlink help rewrite Lebanon’s broken telecoms rulebook?

Lebanon is a land of necessary neighbourhood generators, patchy internet connections, entrepreneurial ideas, and effectively absent regulatory…

Abdulfattah Khattab 28 July , 2025
Opinion

In the nick of time, a Saudi investment corps lands in Damascus

No nation engulfed by war and internal strife has ever truly been saved by political or military agreements alone. Real salvation lies in economic…

Khaled Kassar 28 July , 2025
Opinion

To mend Syria, Damascus must match words with deeds

On paper, Damascus is striking the right tone in the aftermath of the recent violence in Sweida, which once again laid bare the deep fractures in…

Haid Haid 28 July , 2025
Opinion

Joining the dots: Saudi Arabia, the two-state solution, and Syria

There is a clear and deliberate connection between Saudi Arabia’s co-chairing of an international conference in New York to revive the two-state…

Ibrahim Hamidi 28 July , 2025
Israel's parliament has voted to declare the West Bank as Israeli sovereign territory. It is non-binding, but its significance is huge. Eiko Ojala
Politics

The prophecy and the curse: Israel and West Bank annexation

On 23 July 2025, the Israeli Knesset passed a political declaration calling for the imposition of Israeli sovereignty over the occupied West Bank,…

Ziad Al Halabi 28 July , 2025
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Politics

Government drones redraw the rules of war in Yemen

09 September 2026

A military expert writes about new weaponry on the battlefield that could tip the balance of power away from the Houthis, while also highlighting the challenges

Robert Tollast
Pete Reynolds
Politics

Inside Assad’s nuclear secrets

09 September 2026

Al Majalla reveals the structure of Syria's nuclear programme 19 years after Israel bombed the Al-Kibar reactor, detailing the involvement of other states and the assassinations that followed

Al Majalla - London
Underwater image of a diver among fish at the North Seymour Island dive site in the Galapagos archipelago, Ecuador, taken on 8 March 2024. ERNESTO BENAVIDES / AFP
Business & Economy

The global race for rare earths reaches the ocean floor

07 September 2026

A critical mineral found on Japan's seabed has caught US attention, and the two are teaming up to see whether it can yield future benefits and reduce their dependence on China

Abdulfattah Khattab
Al Majalla/Reuters
Politics

The murky origins of al-Qaeda explained

09 September 2026

Thousands of Muslim volunteers flocked to Afghanistan in 1979 to fight the Soviets in response to a rallying cry, aided by the largest covert operation in CIA history

Steve Hewitt
Susan Sarandon in Echo Chamber ANDREA MICONI
Culture & Social Affairs

Susan Sarandon on fear, freedom, and refusing to change

08 September 2026

The renowned American actress tells Al Majalla about her gnawing drive for justice at the Venice Film Festival, where her new film 'Echo Chamber' premiered

Leila Amar

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