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An Israeli soldier stands at an observation post in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights, overlooking southern Syria, on March 25, 2025. AFP
Politics

Israel undermines Syria's security, then blames it for the chaos

Last week’s rocket fire from southern Syria into the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights was the first such incident since the ousting of the Assad regime…

Haid Haid 09 June , 2025
If Picasso were to paint Gaza Fares Garabet
Cartoons

If Picasso were to paint Gaza

Fares Garabet 09 June , 2025
From Tokyo to Tampa: the rise and rise of Asim Munir
Profiles

From Tokyo to Tampa: the rise and rise of Asim Munir

A few weeks ago, the world briefly turned its attention to a conflict other than Gaza or Ukraine. Whenever India and Pakistan face-off, the spectre…

Kamal Alam 08 June , 2025
Opinion

EU sanctions put Syrian leadership’s promises to the test

Hopeful that recovery may finally be within reach, Syrians are still celebrating the US and EU announcements about lifting all sanctions, but the…

Haid Haid 08 June , 2025
Opinion

RIP: the outdated export of revolution in the Middle East

Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam’s recent declaration that the era of “exporting revolution” was over provoked an outcry from Iran’s allies in…

Houssam Itani 07 June , 2025
Troops from the US-led coalition against Islamic State (IS) training SDF fighters in Syria's north-eastern Hasakah province on 7 September 2022. Delil Souleiman/AFP
Politics

Exit signs: America’s full withdrawal from Syria seems imminent

This week, US officials confirmed that 500 American military personnel have been withdrawn from their posts in Syria, six months after the fall of…

Caroline Rose 07 June , 2025
Opinion

‘Children fighting in a park’ with drones and long-range bombers

Any lingering hopes US President Donald Trump may have entertained of bringing the Ukraine war to an early conclusion will have been dispelled by his…

Con Coughlin 06 June , 2025
The 90-day trade truce is seen in Beijing as but a brief pause to recalibrate strategy in a longer-term Cold War-style rivalry. Ewan White
Business & Economy

US–China trade truce is a pause for breath in a new Cold War

After weeks of tit-for-tat tariff escalation that sent shockwaves through global markets, US and Chinese negotiators emerged from a Geneva conference…

Shirley Ze Yu 06 June , 2025
In October 1936, the French government and the Syrian National Bloc signed the Franco-Syrian Treaty of Alliance, giving independence to Syria. Two months earlier, a Zionist delegation was given short shrift by the Bloc. Getty Images
Documents & Memoirs

‘You may leave’: a 1936 meeting between Syrian and Zionist leaders

In early March 1936, a delegation from the National Bloc party travelled to Paris to negotiate the future of Syria. A coalition of parties hostile to…

Sami Moubayed 06 June , 2025
Lady Evelyn Cobbold, a Scottish aristocrat who converted to Islam and performed the Hajj in 1933, becoming the first British Muslim woman to do so. Getty Images
Culture & Social Affairs

The Orientalists who entered Mecca in disguise

Mecca, this sacred city that draws the hearts of Muslims from every corner of the globe, where souls yearn to visit the House of God and…

Abdullah Al-Rashid 06 June , 2025
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Politics

A Houthi takeover of Bab al-Mandab cannot be tolerated

12 September 2026

The Iran-backed group's effective takeover of Yemen's western coast comes with serious regional and global implications. The world needs to act.

Alice Gower
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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