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Syria's new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa (R) and Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov posing for a picture during their meeting in Damascus on January 29, 2025. Reuters
Politics

Al-Sharaa's Russia balancing act

Since the fall of the Syrian regime on 8 December, diplomats from around the world have flocked to Damascus at a pace unseen in decades. However,…

Haid Haid 06 February , 2025
Trump signed two executive orders, one "reimposing maximum pressure on Iran" and a second executive order withdrawing the United States from UNRWA on February 4, 2025. Anna Moneymaker / AFP
Politics

Unpacking Trump’s Iran ultimatum

US President Donald Trump’s top priority in the Middle East is formulating a strategy for effectively curbing Iran’s nuclear aspirations, which seem…

Bilal Saab 06 February , 2025
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (R) and Syria's interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa shake hands during a joint press conference following their meeting at the Presidential Palace in Ankara on February 4, 2025. OZAN KOSE / AFP
Politics

Damascus and Ankara discuss Syria’s key Kurdish question

Shortly after Ahmed al-Sharaa was confirmed as Syria’s interim president, he went to Ankara to meet Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, brought…

Omer Onhon 06 February , 2025
Opinion

Will Trump's tariffs damage the Western alliance?

If US President Donald Trump’s primary purpose in provoking a global trade war is to revive the flagging fortunes of the American economy, he also…

Con Coughlin 06 February , 2025
Netanayhu's attempts to subvert the Gaza ceasefire
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Netanayhu's attempts to subvert the Gaza ceasefire

Fares Garabet 06 February , 2025
Opinion

A new Syria and a reimagined army

Nearly two months after the fall of the Assad regime, the contours of a new Syria are beginning to take shape. In his first address since being…

Ibrahim Hamidi 04 February , 2025
Opinion

The sheer lunacy of Trump’s Gaza takeover plan

One of the special privileges of being the president of the United States is that people have to take what you say seriously, no matter how bananas…

Steven A. Cook 06 February , 2025

Gaza hostage swap, climate action and digital art show

MIGUEL MEDINA / AFP
MIGUEL MEDINA / AFP

A digital presentation of paintings by French impressionist painter Claude Monet in Les Carrieres des Lumières in southern France on January 30, 2025.

Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP
Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP

Hamas fighters secure an area before handing over an Israeli-American hostage to a Red Cross team in Gaza City on February 1, 2025, as part of the fourth hostage-prisoner exchange.

REUTERS/Hatem Khaled
REUTERS/Hatem Khaled

Palestinians wait to receive aid from an UNRWA distribution point, amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, February 4, 2025.

GREG BAKER / AFP
GREG BAKER / AFP

A woman wearing a traditional costume poses for photos outside the Forbidden City on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year in Beijing on February 2, 2025.

REUTERS/Suzanne Plunkett
REUTERS/Suzanne Plunkett

A climate activist wears a scold's bridle as they demonstrate on January 29, 2025, outside the Royal Courts of Justice at a hearing brought by 16 climate activists who have been jailed for their actions in London.

REUTERS/Quetzalli Nicte-Ha
REUTERS/Quetzalli Nicte-Ha

Members of the Animal Heroes organisation take part in an anti-bullfighting protest in front of the Plaza de Toros Mexico in Mexico City on February 2, 2025.

REUTERS/Feisal Omar
REUTERS/Feisal Omar

Puntland Security Forces parade newly trained soldiers and equipment to combat the Islamic State (IS) in Bosasso, Bari Region, Puntland region, Somalia January 30, 2025.

RAJESH JANTILAL / AFP
RAJESH JANTILAL / AFP

A juggler rides a unicycle past monks, or Hindu holy men, taking part in the Nagar Yatra procession in Johannesburg on February 1, 2025.

Ousmane Makaveli / AFP
Ousmane Makaveli / AFP

Two traditional Dogon wrestlers fight at the Ogobagna Festival in Bamako on January 30, 2025.

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Syria's interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa (L), his wife Latifa al-Droubi (R), and Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani (2nd-L), exit the Kaaba, Islam's holiest shrine while performing Umrah in the city of Mecca on February 3, 2025.

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Al Majalla's Film Watch

From studios in the Arab world and beyond, Al Majalla offers thoughtful critiques of the newest films to hit the screen, from mainstream blockbusters…

Areej Jamal 05 February , 2025
China's DeepSeek deals early blow to Trump’s AI dream Alex Wiliam
Business & Economy

China's DeepSeek deals early blow to Trump’s AI dream

When the Chinese Artificial Intelligence (AI) start-up DeepSeek began surpassing everything else in Apple’s App Store at the end of January, the…

Abdulfattah Khattab 05 February , 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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