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Why talk of disarming Hezbollah sends its supporters into a frenzy

As calls in the US, Israel and within Lebanese society mount for Hezbollah to disarm, the reactions of Lebanese Shiites tell a story of both fear and…

Houssam Itani 03 May , 2025
Rahaf Saad, a Palestinian girl who lost her legs in an Israeli air strike. REUTERS
Culture & Social Affairs

Missing limbs and broken dreams: Gaza's generation of child amputees

Gaza: Among the thousands of heartbreaking images that have emerged from Israel's war on Gaza, one image gained special attention when it landed on…

Houssam Marouf 03 May , 2025
A boy checks a destroyed vehicle in Ashrafiyat Sahnaya near Damascus on May 1, 2025. OMAR HAJ KADOUR / AFP
Politics

Syria's sectarian violence is a ticking time bomb

Yet another alarming episode of violence has recently erupted in Syria. Tensions first erupted over the weekend of 25 April, when a voice recording…

Haid Haid 03 May , 2025
Opinion

Sudan's war is hard to end because it is so misunderstood

After two years of devastating civil war in Sudan, international actors with an interest in the conflict came to London for a conference convened by…

Amgad Fareid Eltayeb 02 May , 2025
A Lebanese army soldier guards the Lebanese-Syrian border in an area they recently took from the Islamic State (IS) group in Jurud Ras Baalbek on August 28, 2017. PATRICK BAZ / AFP
Documents & Memoirs

The winding history of the Lebanese-Syrian border

Weeks after the French withdrawal from Syria in April 1946, a group of parliamentarians submitted a memorandum to then-Speaker Saadallah al-Jabri,…

Sami Moubayed 02 May , 2025
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Ukrainian Economy Minister Yulia Svyrydenko sign a deal that gives the United States preferential access to Ukraine's mineral resources. US Department of the Treasury/Reuters
Politics

Will a minerals deal keep the US invested in Ukraine's security?

It has taken several painful months of negotiations to finally reach a deal, but the “economic partnership agreement” signed between Ukraine and the…

Con Coughlin 01 May , 2025
How Trump upended global trade in only 100 days Nash Weerasekera
Business & Economy

How Trump upended global trade in only 100 days

The first 100 days of President Donald Trump’s second term in office may be among the most tumultuous in the history of the global economy. From…

Khaled Kassar 01 May , 2025
Opinion

Syria’s new government must speak as clearly to its own people as it has to the world

Syria’s Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani arrived in New York in late April, becoming the first senior official from the country to appear at the…

Alia Mansour 01 May , 2025
100 days of Trump
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100 days of Trump

Fares Garabet 01 May , 2025
SDF leader Mazloum Abdi (C) and Hamid Darbandi (C-R behind), envoy of Iraqi Kurdish politician Masoud Barzani, attend the pan-Kurdish "Unity and Consensus" conference in Qamishli in northeastern Syria on April 26, 2025. Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP
Politics

In U-turn, Syrian Kurds are now demanding federalism

On 26 April, the first Kurdish National Conference convened in Qamishli, the main city of northeastern Syria, which Kurds and many other countries…

Omer Onhon 30 April , 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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