A decades-old audio recording made at a pivotal moment in the history of the Middle East has recently come to light, and it has a direct bearing on…

Afrin, Syria: “Our men didn’t even enter Jableh,” claimed Brigadier General Mohammed al-Jassim during an extensive interview with Al Majalla on his…

India and Pakistan are once again at each other’s throats. Following a terrorist attack in Indian-administered Kashmir on 22 April, New Delhi…

It is one of history’s great ironies. Washington has become an opponent of the global free trade system it once led, turning to tariffs and…

A 22-year-old art degree graduate is immersed in a sea of finely rolled paper cylinders. They know the addresses, classifications, and precise…

The election of Robert Prevost as the new head of the Catholic Church, where he has decided to take the name Pope Leo XIV, is likely to herald a new…

Almost a decade ago, as I visited an embassy in Israel to brief diplomats on the security situation in the Middle East, my colleague and I were asked…

After decades of Assad rule by a family closely allied with Iran and belonging to the Alawite (an offshoot of Shiism) sect, a project to reassert…

Libya is at its lowest point since 2020, when a ceasefire ended the civil war between the UN-recognised government in the west and eastern forces led…

After US President Donald Trump imposed 145% tariffs on all imports from China, Beijing retaliated with its own tariff increase and also banned the…