US President Donald Trump may have missed his self-proclaimed deadline to end the Ukraine conflict within 24 hours of taking office, but he has lost…
Axel Rangel Garcia
US President Donald Trump may have missed his self-proclaimed deadline to end the Ukraine conflict within 24 hours of taking office, but he has lost…
When Idlib-based fighters launched a major push for Aleppo in late November, it caught everyone by surprise—not least the Syrian army of Bashar al…
On the occasion of the 50-year anniversary of Umm Kulthum's passing, Al Majalla revisits her memoirs as per the account of late Egyptian writer Ali…
Umm Kulthum was known to be taciturn despite being a famous singer whose craft centred on words. She seldom gave interviews and rarely spoke to her…
It has been a busy few weeks for news in Türkiye, with a plethora of high-profile arrests and one tragedy—the fire in a ski resort that killed 78…
For the last 17 months, the figures emerging out of Gaza have been mind-numbing: 10,000 dead, 20,000 dead, 30,000, the grim milestones notching ever…
Day by day, the picture becomes clearer. Syria, once a captive, has now returned. Liberated from over five decades of captivity, it has reclaimed its…
This aerial photo shows displaced Gazans walking toward Gaza City on January 27, 2025, after crossing the Netzarim corridor from the southern Gaza Strip.
Displaced Palestinian children play near tents along a beach in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on January 22, 2025, on the fourth day of a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas.
Mourners surround the flag-draped body of two-year-old Laila al-Khatib on January 26, 2025, a day after she succumbed to her wounds after being shot during an Israeli military raid in Jenin in the occupied West Bank.
People vent their anger in the "rage room" to escape the stress of daily life by breaking things in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, on January 25, 2025.
This aerial picture shows a worker arranging dried incense sticks to dry in a courtyard in Quang Phu Cau village on the outskirts of Hanoi on January 21, 2025, ahead of Lunar New Year celebrations, known in Vietnam as Tet.
Dancers, known as Kukeri, wearing costumes perform during the International Festival of the Masquerade Games in Pernik, western Bulgaria, on January 25, 2025.
Indian soldiers march during the country’s 76th Republic Day parade in New Delhi on January 26, 2025.
Iraqi army soldiers rappel from a military helicopter flying near the golden domes of the shrine of the 8th-century Shiite Muslim Imam Musa al-Kadhim during the annual commemoration of his death on January 26, 2024, near Baghdad.
Members of the Mexican National Guard patrol next to the US-Mexico border wall Saturday, January 25, 2025, in Tijuana, Mexico.
Dancers of The Imperial Russian Ballet Company get ready before performing Tchaikovsky's classic work "Swan Lake" at ATO Congresium in Ankara, Türkiye on January 25, 2025.
Amid a broader move toward economic diversification in the Gulf region, Oman has launched several initiatives to invigorate its local labour force,…