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What does a US-Israel war on Iran mean for oil prices?

When Israel first attacked Israel on 13 June—targeting its nuclear facilities and assassinating its nuclear scientists as well as senior commanders…

Khaled Kassar 22 June , 2025
Do you ever wonder if you could be a spy? Find out what it takes from spies throughout history, including Morten Storm, Dimitri Bystrolyotov, Mata Hari, Sir Francis Walsingham, and James Lafayette. Sam Kittner for the International Spy Museum
Culture & Social Affairs

Secrets and surveillance: a look at Washington’s spy museum

From wiretapping and sabotage to a listening tree trunk, James Bond’s cars, and an eavesdropping eagle, a museum in Washington, D.C. tells the story…

Osama Esber 21 June , 2025
Syria reinforces its borders to stop any Israel-Iran spillover
Politics

Syria reinforces its borders to stop any Israel-Iran spillover

The Syrian government is seeking to avoid becoming a theatre for conflict between Israel and Iran, as the pair continued trading blows this week…

Subhi Franjieh 21 June , 2025
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei addresses Iranians on the occasion of the 36th anniversary of the death of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (portrait), in Tehran on June 4, 2025. KHAMENEI.IR / AFP
Profiles

Ali Khamenei: the guardian of Iran's strategic patience doctrine

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of Iran who ruled over the Islamic Republic for more than three decades as it faced off with the West, was…

Arash Azizi 21 June , 2025
Attacks on Iran make a nuclear bomb more likely Lina Jaradat
Politics

Attacks on Iran make a nuclear bomb more likely

**Update: On 22 June, the US struck three Iranian nuclear sites, making it the first direct American attack since Israel's unprecedented strike a…

Eric Brewer 20 June , 2025
The US Navy's aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower transits the Strait of Hormuz on November 26, 2023. AFP
Business & Economy

Oil, stock markets so far stable amid Israel-Iran war

On global financial markets, the reaction to escalating tensions in the Middle East and the direct military confrontation between Israel and Iran has…

Sharif Mohammad 20 June , 2025
Opinion

Beyond Fordow

The argument that the war between Iran and Israel comes down to the fate of Fordow is lazy and even misleading. Let’s assume for a moment that US…

Bilal Saab 20 June , 2025
Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel, uses a diagram of a bomb to describe Iran's nuclear programme while delivering his address to the 67th United Nations General Assembly meeting on September 27, 2012. DON EMMERT / AFP
Politics

Fact or fear? how Netanyahu ‘securitises’ Iran’s existential threat

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has portrayed Iran as posing an existential threat to his country, invoking a powerful form of political…

Ahmed Maher 19 June , 2025
Opinion

Trump's reported approval of Iran strikes could set the region ablaze

The revelation that US President Donald Trump has given his private authorisation for the US military to attack Iran raises the alarming prospect of…

Con Coughlin 19 June , 2025
'Arab in the Corridors of Parliament: My Story and Politics in Israel' by Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi Al Majalla
Culture & Social Affairs

A window into the experience of Palestinian citizens of Israel

A new book by the former Arab Israeli politician Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi raises complex, painful, and enduring questions both for Palestinians, Arabs,…

Mohamed abi Samra 19 June , 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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