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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
On May 14, 1948, Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion (standing under a huge portrait of Theodor Herzl, the founder of political Zionism, proclaims the establishment of Israel. Getty
Politics

Those who see plans for a ‘Greater Israel’ are not the first to do so

Following the recent 12-day war between Iran and Israel, the Turkish state television channel TRT World aired an in-depth report claiming that Israel…

Louis Fishman 28 July , 2025
The UK's National Security Advisor Jonathan Powell, who has a track record of helping enemy combatants agree terms. Shutterstock
Profiles

Jonathan Powell: the UK’s ultimate fixer flies into world hotspots

Together with Peter Mandelson, the British ambassador in Washington, D.C, Jonathan Powell is the latest big name from the last Labour government to…

Con Coughlin 27 July , 2025
Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov attends a meeting on the development strategy of the Russian Navy submarine forces held by President Vladimir Putin in Severodvinsk, Arkhangelsk region, Russia July 24, 2025. Alexander Kazakov/Sputnik via Reuters
Politics

What Russia learned from the 12-day Israel-Iran war

Following the recent 12-day war between Israel and Iran, military analysts around the world will be assessing effectiveness of combatants’ decisions,…

Anton Mardasov 27 July , 2025
Opinion

Ukrainians’ patience with President Zelenskyy stretches thin

Ukrainian popular support for wartime leader President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has begun to look frayed in recent days, with people protesting against…

Con Coughlin 26 July , 2025
The King Abdullah Financial Centre (KAFD) in Riyadh on December 1, 2024. Reuters
Business & Economy

Building the future: Gulf states pave the way to diversification

Across the Middle East, scaffolding and steel are becoming the most visible signs of the region’s economic transformation. From the coastlines of the…

Neil Quilliam 26 July , 2025
Employees count bundles of Yemeni Riyal banknotes at the Central Bank of Yemen in Sanaa on January 7, 2020. Khaled Abdullah/Reuters
Politics

Politicising Yemen’s currency: new Houthi notes part of a pattern

Barely a day goes by without Yemen’s Houthi group being in the news. Earlier this month, it attacked and sank two sea-going vessels. Then a naval…

Anwar Al-Ansi 26 July , 2025
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Al-Jawf: the key to defeating the Houthis

05, Nov 2026

The battle for this strategically important and resource-rich province tests the Yemeni army's ability to tilt the military balance in its favour

Al Majalla - London
Saudi Arabia's Defence Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman Al-Saud, Pakistan's army chief General Syed Asim Munir, and Turkey's intelligence chief Ibrahim Kalin in Tehran on 26 October 2026. IRANIAN PRESIDENCY / AFP
Politics

Pakistan’s balancing act in a fragmenting world

07, Nov 2026

Staying friends with the Turks, Chinese, Russians, Americans, Europeans, Iranians and Saudis simultaneously is a big ask for Islamabad's diplomats, but somehow they are managing it

Kaswar Klasra
Politics

Can the Democrats prevent a new round of war with Iran?

05, Nov 2026

Despite the war's unpopularity, Trump seems determined to press on until he can claim a decisive victory, whether by diplomacy, force, or a combination of the two

Aqeel Abbas
Eduardo Ramon
Profiles

Abdul El-Sayed: the progressive Michigander who beat the pro-Israel lobby

07, Aug 2026

The Egyptian-American epidemiologist became the first Muslim senator in US history, despite $70mn spent to defeat him in the Democratic primary

Tarek Rashed
French author Philippe Djianada looks out from a window at the Drouant restaurant in Paris, following his win of the French Goncourt literary prize for his novel "The Unknown Woman of Quai de Javel," on 3 November 2026. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann
Culture & Social Affairs

A novel about a murder in Paris wins the 2026 Goncourt

06, Nov 2026

French novelist Philippe Jaenada's novel 'The Unknown Woman of Quai de Javel' wins big, while the Prix Renaudot goes to François-Henri Désérable for his novel about an unlikely wine expert

Najeeb Mubarak

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