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Syria developments give cause for both optimism and worry

Since an alliance of militias led by Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) entered Damascus in December to put an end to the rule of the Assad family, analysts…

Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy 20 March , 2025
A supporter of the Mayor of Istanbul holds a selfie photograph depicting herself and Ekrem Imamoglu during a demonstration against his detention over a corruption probe in Istanbul on March 19, 2025. YASIN AKGUL / AFP
Politics

İmamoğlu detention sends shockwaves through Türkiye

The detention of Ekrem İmamoğlu, the Mayor of Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality, has sent shockwaves through Turkish society. He was snatched from…

Omer Onhon 19 March , 2025
Nadav Weiman Péter Csuth
Politics

Haunting eyes: an Israeli soldier’s moral awakening

Conducting operations in the occupied Palestinian territories as part of an Israeli Special Forces unit, Nadav Weiman knows what it is like to take…

Ahmed Maher 19 March , 2025
US President Donald Trump looks on as military strikes are launched against the Houthis in Yemen in this handout image released on March 15, 2025. Reuters
Politics

Is time really up for the Houthis?

Recent US military strikes on Yemen, accompanied by a warning from President Donald Trump directed at the Houthis that ‘your time is up’ have…

Anwar Al-Ansi 19 March , 2025
Installation view of the ‘Brasil! Brasil! The Birth of Modernism' exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, London shows Djanira, Three Orishas, 1966, Collection of the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo. Royal Academy of Arts, London / David Parry. © Instituto Pintora Djanira
Culture & Social Affairs

London art exhibit sets Brazil as the birthplace of modernism

Brazil is an entire ocean’s length away from Europe—the continent usually associated with modernism. Yet, an exhibition in London’s Royal Academy of…

Farouk Yousif 19 March , 2025

Israel ends Gaza ceasefire and more from around the world

Bashar TALEB / AFP
Bashar TALEB / AFP

Families evacuate Beit Hanoun in the north of Gaza on March 18 following the most intense Israeli strikes since a January ceasefire, which killed more than 300 Palestinians.

FADEL SENNA / AFP
FADEL SENNA / AFP

The setting moon is pictured over the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi on March 14, 2025, during Islam's holy fasting month of Ramadan.

Jim WATSON / AFP
Jim WATSON / AFP

US President Donald Trump walks through the Hall of Nations as he visits the John F. Kennedy Centre for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, on March 17, 2025.

DIBYANGSHU SARKAR / AFP
DIBYANGSHU SARKAR / AFP

Girls are smeared with coloured powder during Holi celebrations, the Hindu spring festival of colours, in Kolkata on March 14, 2025.

REUTERS/Chalinee Thirasupa
REUTERS/Chalinee Thirasupa

People attend "MOONLAB”, an intergalactic art exhibition and installation, in Bangkok, Thailand, March 16, 2025.

REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha
REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha

A worker collects sea salt at a salt farm in Chachoengsao province, on the outskirts of Bangkok, Thailand, March 15, 2025.

REUTERS/Lisi Niesner
REUTERS/Lisi Niesner

A view inside the glass dome at Reichstag building, ahead of an extraordinary session of the Bundestag for a vote to adopt the draft law to reform constitutional debt rules in Berlin, Germany, on March 18, 2025.

JOSE JORDAN / AFP
JOSE JORDAN / AFP

A cardboard figure known as a "Ninot" entitled "Donald the Hutt" depicting US President Donald Trump is displayed during the Fallas festival in Valencia on March 16, 2025.

Yasuyoshi CHIBA / AFP
Yasuyoshi CHIBA / AFP

A demonstrator dances along a street during a protest against impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol in Seoul on March 17, 2025, ahead of the impeachment verdict for the president.

AP / Leo Correa
AP / Leo Correa

Members of the Druze community of the town of Majdal Shams gather to say goodbye to Syrian Druze clerics before they cross the border back to Syria, as seen from the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights, Saturday, March 15, 2025.

A woman cries while sitting on the rubble of her house, destroyed in an Israeli strike, in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza Strip on March 18, 2025. Eyad BABA / AFP
Politics

Israel appears to end Gaza ceasefire with US backing

Israel has killed more than 400 Palestinians in Gaza after declaring an end to the ceasefire there and conducting a barrage of intense air strikes on…

Asaad Ghanem 18 March , 2025
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Science & Technology

US-China battle for tech dominance heats up

On the western side of Tiananmen Square in Beijing stands the Great Hall of the People, built in 1959. Renowned for its grand design, it hosts key…

Marco Mossad 18 March , 2025
Israel and Ukraine top US foreign aid recipient list Diana Estefanía Rubio
Infographics

Israel and Ukraine top US foreign aid recipient list

In January 2025, the Trump administration abruptly froze nearly all US foreign aid to conduct a 90-day review to ensure they align with his new…

Al Majalla - London 18 March , 2025
Children stand on a hill overlooking the camp of Atme for displaced people, on the outskirts of Idlib in northwestern Syria, on February 5, 2025, nearly two months after Islamist-led rebels toppled Syrian president Bashar al-Assad. Bakr ALKASEM / AFP
Politics

Idlib rises from the rubble, but sanctions still sting

Idlib: Flat expanses surrounding the regional capital of this Syrian province grow rockier and mountainous both to the west and the north along the…

Shelly Kittleson 18 March , 2025
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A collage of Israel's policy of destruction and starvation in Gaza. Eduardo Ramon
Politics

Unpacking Israel's decisive turn towards savagery

23 April 2026

Israel's gloves-off approach since 2023 didn't emerge out of the blue; it is deeply rooted in Zionist and Israeli military thought.

Majed Kayali
Axel Rangel Garcia
Business & Economy

Test of wills: Iran’s ability to outlast the US blockade

26 April 2026

The standoff in the Hormuz is not simply a question of whether Tehran can survive economic pressure, but whether Washington can sustain the pressure at an acceptable cost.

Alex Vatanka
Sara Padovan
Science & Technology

Iran’s 'mosquito fleet' presents a pesky problem

28 April 2026

The Strait of Hormuz is now poised to become the primary arena of confrontation, with Iran relying on speedboat-driven guerrilla warfare to confront the US navy.

Marco Mossad
A Syrian army soldier holds a national flag featuring Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in front of a building left in ruins on 5 June 2013 in the city of Qusayr in the Homs province. AFP
Politics

Syria's taswiya slow roll creates a host of problems

28 April 2026

Former regime soldiers are stuck in limbo, as their undocumented status prevents them from working, travelling, and curbs family members' access to education, healthcare and social services

Haid Haid
Culture & Social Affairs

The Arab women raising the bar in travel literature

28 April 2026

In recent years, travel writing has witnessed a striking revival, though along a different path, one now charted by Arab women's voices.

Ibrahim Adel

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