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Mazloum Abdi agrees to merge the SDF into Syria's state army Yusra Na'im
Politics

Mazloum Abdi agrees to merge the SDF into Syria's state army

The commander-in-chief of one of the major military groups in Syria—General Mazloum Abdi of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)—has confirmed he…

Ibrahim Hamidi 11 March , 2025
A woman wearing a jilbab with a bouquet of flowers in her hand walks down a street in the Barbes district in Paris on June 25, 2023. JOEL SAGET / AFP
Culture & Social Affairs

A walk through Barbès, the migrants’ hub in the heart of Paris

Just north of the French capital’s main train station, Gare du Nord, and a few streets from Montmartre, home of its artists, is the less-loved but…

Sohaib Ayoub 11 March , 2025
Protesters hold up banners reading "Yes to Peace - No to NATO" (R) and "Wages up - armament down" as they attend an anti-war demonstration in Munich on February 15, 2025, on the sidelines of the 61st Munich Security Conference. Tobias SCHWARZ / AFP
Politics

Western liberalism is in retreat

Is Western liberalism in retreat? From a high point after the Cold War, when it appeared liberalism would spread across the globe, today it is under…

Christopher Phillips 11 March , 2025
Aramco outperforms global oil and gas giants in 2024 Diana Estefanía Rubio
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Aramco outperforms global oil and gas giants in 2024

Despite Saudi Arabia’s state-owned oil giant Aramco reporting a 12% decrease of its net profits in 2024 due to lower energy prices, the company…

Al Majalla - London 11 March , 2025
AI models are dreaming up the materials of the future shutterstock
Science & Technology

AI models are dreaming up the materials of the future

Scientists looking to remove carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air cleanly and cheaply have long been interested in metal-organic frameworks, or MOFs:…

The Economist 10 March , 2025
Trump wants to restart Iran nuclear talks
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Trump wants to restart Iran nuclear talks

Fares Garabet 10 March , 2025
"Just in Case" exhibition Courtesy of the artist and Sfeir-Semler Gallery Beirut/Hamburg
Culture & Social Affairs

Gaza in metaphors: Taysir Batniji's latest art shown in Beirut

A phone alert rings in Taysir Batniji’s ears, then another, then another. Photos and videos accumulate, many on Telegram, others from news feeds. He…

Nawal Al-Ali 10 March , 2025
US Marines on patrol in Afghanistan during Operation Enduring Freedom on February 4, 2012. shutterstock
Politics

How Afghanistan broke NATO and why it matters for Ukraine

As Europe scrambles to come to terms with President Donald Trump’s decision to halt the flow of military aid from the United States to Ukraine,…

Kamal Alam 10 March , 2025
Artisanal miners in the Inchiri region pulling up ore from the bottom of a pit in Akjoujt, Mauritania on September 21, 2020. shutterstock
Business & Economy

Mauritania's mineral treasure trove drives its rapid growth

With the world changing at a faster pace than anyone predicted, nations that have long been overlooked are now garnering global attention. One such…

Mohamed Sharki 09 March , 2025
Volodymyr Zelenskyy: The Ukrainian president who landed on Trump's bad side Al Majalla
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy: The Ukrainian president who landed on Trump's bad side

When Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy travels to Saudi Arabia for talks with US officials later this week, he will be aiming to ease the…

Con Coughlin 09 March , 2025
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IRGC soldiers march during the annual military parade marking the anniversary of the outbreak of the devastating 1980-1988 war with Saddam Hussein's Iraq, in the capital Tehran on 22 September, 2018. AFP
Politics

The US-Iran war could empower the IRGC

09 March 2026

When states are attacked, authority gravitates towards institutions capable of mobilising resources, enforcing discipline, and coordinating a military response

Alex Vatanka
A picture of Iran's new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, displayed on a screen in Tehran, amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Tehran, Iran, on 9 March 2026. Majid Asgaripour / Reuters
Politics

Iran’s defiant regime picks a new supreme leader

09 March 2026

The appointment suggests the Revolutionary Guards have the upper hand

The Economist
Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian is greeted by Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi during the D-8 summit in Cairo, Egypt, on 19 December 2024. AFP
Politics

Egypt fears an unrestrained Israel if Iran collapses

06 March 2026

Cairo and Tehran have been at loggerheads since 1979, but the Iranian threat has always acted as a check on Israeli ambitions. If Iran is completely defeated, Israel will reign supreme.

Amr Emam
A boy plays with his sheep next to an unexploded missile that landed in an open field on the outskirts of Qamishli, eastern Syria, on 5 March 2026. DELIL SOULEIMAN / AFP
Business & Economy

Syria may escape war but not its economic fallout

08 March 2026

Even if it stays on the sidelines of the US-Iran war, the country is fragile. Unlike larger economies that can absorb shocks in global markets, it has little room to cushion the impact.

Haid Haid
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

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