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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RIP: the outdated export of revolution in the Middle East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This week, US officials confirmed that 500 American military personnel have been withdrawn from their posts in Syria, six months after the fall of…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
Arms outstretched where once artillery did the talking Fares Garabet
Cartoons

Arms outstretched where once artillery did the talking

Fares Garabet 05 June , 2025
Opinion

Hezbollah bristles as Lebanon’s new PM declares the obvious

The late Secretary-General of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, was never accused of lacking clarity when it came to weapons and the organisation’s right…

Alia Mansour 05 June , 2025
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Pep Boatella
Politics

Al-Jawf: the key to defeating the Houthis

05, Nov 2026

The battle for this strategically important and resource-rich province tests the Yemeni army's ability to tilt the military balance in its favour

Al Majalla - London
Saudi Arabia's Defence Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman Al-Saud, Pakistan's army chief General Syed Asim Munir, and Turkey's intelligence chief Ibrahim Kalin in Tehran on 26 October 2026. IRANIAN PRESIDENCY / AFP
Politics

Pakistan’s balancing act in a fragmenting world

07, Nov 2026

Staying friends with the Turks, Chinese, Russians, Americans, Europeans, Iranians and Saudis simultaneously is a big ask for Islamabad's diplomats, but somehow they are managing it

Kaswar Klasra
Politics

Can the Democrats prevent a new round of war with Iran?

05, Nov 2026

Despite the war's unpopularity, Trump seems determined to press on until he can claim a decisive victory, whether by diplomacy, force, or a combination of the two

Aqeel Abbas
Eduardo Ramon
Profiles

Abdul El-Sayed: the progressive Michigander who beat the pro-Israel lobby

07, Aug 2026

The Egyptian-American epidemiologist became the first Muslim senator in US history, despite $70mn spent to defeat him in the Democratic primary

Tarek Rashed
French author Philippe Djianada looks out from a window at the Drouant restaurant in Paris, following his win of the French Goncourt literary prize for his novel "The Unknown Woman of Quai de Javel," on 3 November 2026. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann
Culture & Social Affairs

A novel about a murder in Paris wins the 2026 Goncourt

06, Nov 2026

French novelist Philippe Jaenada's novel 'The Unknown Woman of Quai de Javel' wins big, while the Prix Renaudot goes to François-Henri Désérable for his novel about an unlikely wine expert

Najeeb Mubarak

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