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Business & Economy

Saudi Arabia’s refining strategy reflects a deliberate economic recalibration

Saudi Arabia is expanding its crude oil refining capacity to better adapt to the changing global energy market. The Kingdom is not merely responding…

Neil Quilliam 03 July , 2025
Opinion

Will Netanyahu return Trump's favour and agree to Gaza truce?

After the staunch support US President Donald Trump gave to Israel in its military confrontation with Iran, the American leader will be expecting…

Con Coughlin 03 July , 2025
Opinion

Hezbollah arms are not the only thing holding Lebanon back

Portraying Hezbollah’s disarmament and the handover of its weapons to the Lebanese state as the sole obstacle to peace and prosperity is a gross…

Houssam Itani 03 July , 2025
Gaza’s ‘death trap’ aid centres: a real-life Hunger Games Lina Jaradat
Culture & Social Affairs

Gaza’s ‘death trap’ aid centres: a real-life Hunger Games

More than 580 Palestinians have been killed while seeking aid since a new Israeli-backed aid distribution system began operating in the Gaza Strip on…

Hala Al-Naji 03 July , 2025
People gather to celebrate after Lebanese parliament elects army chief Joseph Aoun as the new president, on January 9, 2025, in Al-Aaishiyah, Lebanon. Ramiz Dallah/Getty
Politics

Lebanon’s second chance at statehood

Lebanon’s first experiment with statehood began in 1943 with its independence from France. That arrangement lasted about 25 years before the state…

Paul Salem 03 July , 2025
A Syrian rebel fighter holds a container of pills of Captagon discovered at a drug manufacturing facility in the city of Douma on the eastern outskirts of Damascus on December 12, 2024. Bakr ALKASEM / AFP
Politics

Wasim al-Assad’s arrest is a big win for Syria's war on crime

In the wake of the Assad regime's fall in early December 2024, the new interim government’s security and police forces were busier than ever,…

Caroline Rose 03 July , 2025
Israel turns Gaza aid into a life-or-death proposition
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Israel turns Gaza aid into a life-or-death proposition

Fares Garabet 02 July , 2025
Opinion

Iran’s triumphalism doesn’t square with reality

US President Donald Trump did it. Just 12 days after Israel attacked Iran, triggering a wave of attacks and missile barrages between the two sworn…

Alia Mansour 02 July , 2025
Donald Trump's penchant for pursuing the news he wants, rather than the information his intelligence services give him, echoes past White House mistakes, not least over Iraq. Sara Padovan
Politics

Trump’s selective intelligence on Iran echoes past missteps

The Trump administration’s claims that Iran’s nuclear programme was “obliterated” by US bunker buster bombs in June have been met with a mixed…

Christopher Phillips 02 July , 2025
Administration is integral to Syria’s state-building task Lina Jaradat
Business & Economy

Administration is integral to Syria’s state-building task

Administration is needed to define and achieve goals, and to empower the forces that make them happen. Even when the necessary materials, funds, and…

Hussein al-Sharaa 02 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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