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Libya's latest bout of violence highlights the urgent need for intervention

Libya’s national crisis—steadily deteriorating since the end of the 2020 civil war—recently slipped once again to new depths of division, danger, and…

Tarek Megerisi 24 May , 2025
A member of the Syrian security forces searches a defunct drug factory inside an abandoned building near the village of Hawik in the countryside of Al-Qusayr on February 12, 2025. LOUAI BESHARA / AFP
Politics

Syria's drug networks remain active despite Assad's ouster

The fall of the Assad regime in December 2024 was met with widespread relief—not only among Syrians but among regional actors eager to move past its…

Haid Haid 24 May , 2025
Can Arctic cooperation thaw US-Russia tensions? Miriam Martincic
Politics

Can Arctic cooperation thaw US-Russia tensions?

Apple co-founder Steve Jobs once famously said, “Start small, think big.” To some extent, that sentiment applied to the agenda of the US-Russian…

Anton Mardasov 23 May , 2025
From Buddha’s Smile to Nasr: inside India-Pakistan nuclear rivalry Shutterstock
Science & Technology

From Buddha’s Smile to Nasr: inside India-Pakistan nuclear rivalry

Since the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947, relations between the two neighbours have remained tense, fluctuating between fragile truces and…

Mohammed Mansour 23 May , 2025
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Business & Economy

The priorities for Syria’s central bank after sanctions lifted

After more than a decade of war, Syria faces enormous economic and social challenges. Since the outbreak of conflict in 2011, more than half of the…

Abdulkader Husrieh 23 May , 2025
Opinion

Turning tides? Israel's allies are finally criticising its war on Gaza

Having defied world opinion since the start of its uncompromising military campaign in Gaza, Israel suddenly finds itself under mounting…

Con Coughlin 23 May , 2025
Kurds await Türkiye's next move
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Kurds await Türkiye's next move

Fares Garabet 22 May , 2025
An Iranian couple walk past mural paintings depicting scenes from the torture of Iraqi prisoners by US soldiers at the Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad, on a major highway in the Iranian capital Tehran on June 1, 2004. AFP
Culture & Social Affairs

From Abu Ghraib to Sde Teiman: rogue acts or systemic policy?

On 28 April 2004, a year after the US-led invasion of Iraq, CBS aired the first images of Abu Ghraib prison. In doing so, it exposed American…

Nour Bader 22 May , 2025
Lifting the veil on secret US-Assad talks
Documents & Memoirs

Lifting the veil on secret US-Assad talks

The short but important meeting between Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa and US President Donald Trump in Riyadh on 14 May marked a pivotal shift in…

Ibrahim Hamidi 21 May , 2025

Snapshots from Kashmir, Palestine, Brazil and more

May, 2025
TAUSEEF MUSTAFA / AFP
TAUSEEF MUSTAFA / AFP

An Indian army soldier stands guard near the Line of Control (LoC) in India's Kashmir region on May 19, 2025.

Zain JAAFAR / AFP
Zain JAAFAR / AFP

A Palestinian man lifts a national flag as he walks on a road destroyed in Israeli raids at the entrance of the Tulkarm refugee camp on May 19, 2025.

REUTERS/Toby Melville
REUTERS/Toby Melville

A visitor views floristry design entries at the Chelsea Flower Show in London, Britain, on May 19, 2025.

Rafael Martins / AFP
Rafael Martins / AFP

A woman attends the Bembe do Mercado manifestation in Santo Amaro, Bahia State, Brazil, on May 18, 2025.

REUTERS/Enea Lebrun
REUTERS/Enea Lebrun

A man walks past vehicles taking part in the "Diablos Rojos" race, an annual competition featuring old school buses modified for use as personal transport, in La Chorrera, Panama, on May 18, 2025.

REUTERS/ Mohammad Ponir Hossain
REUTERS/ Mohammad Ponir Hossain

A boy throws a polythene bag full of waste into Shuvadda Canal, which is under the pile of plastic waste, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on May 20, 2025.

Stefano Rellandini / AFP
Stefano Rellandini / AFP

Pope Leo XIV greets the crowd from the popemobile before a Holy Mass for the beginning of his pontificate, in St. Peter's Square in the Vatican on May 18, 2025.

REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz
REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz

People attend a rally in support of federal workers outside the 26 Federal Plaza, a federal office building in New York City, US, on March 25, 2025.

Paul ELLIS / AFP
Paul ELLIS / AFP

Fans hold blue flares as they gather outside of Goodison Park ahead of the English Premier League football match between Everton and Southampton, in Liverpool, northwest England, on May 18, 2025.

TANG CHHIN Sothy / AFP
TANG CHHIN Sothy / AFP

Phnom Penh governor Khuong Sreng (R) and his wife (2nd R) offer alms to Buddhist monks during the annual 'Day of Remembrance' for the victims of the Khmer Rouge regime at the Choeung Ek memorial in Phnom Penh on May 20, 2025.

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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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