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Opinion

Neo-Umayyadists need a reality check

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…

Houssam Itani 09 May , 2025
People queue with jerry cans to fill up fuel for home electric‬ generators at a petrol station in Libya's capital, Tripoli, on July 4, 2022, amidst a fuel and‬ energy crisis. Mahmud TURKIA / AFP
Politics

Libya is at its lowest point since 2020

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…

Ben Fishman 09 May , 2025
A large walking excavator works in a quarry for the extraction of rare metals. shutterstock
Business & Economy

China's titanium grip on rare earths puts US on backfoot

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

Abdulfattah Khattab 09 May , 2025
Nada Kousa wearing the traditional Lebanese headress the 'tantour' Joe Challita
Culture & Social Affairs

The towering history of the tantour

When Nada Koussa represented Lebanon at the 2024 Miss Universe pageant, her outfit, styled by Lebanese fashion designer Joe Challita, was crowned…

Rosette Fadel 08 May , 2025
Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani (C) attends a flag raising ceremony of the new Syrian flag at United Nations Headquarters in New York on April 25, 2025. ANGELA WEISS / AFP
Politics

Why the US should engage with Syria's new government

At the Brussels Conference in March, US Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Levant and Syria engagement in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, Natasha…

Radwan Ziadeh 08 May , 2025
Why Libya isn't the right model for Iran’s nuclear climbdown Ewan White
Politics

Why Libya isn't the right model for Iran’s nuclear climbdown

When it comes to dealing with Iran’s nuclear programme, there have been dozens of suggestions over the years. Ideas come and go, in vogue then out of…

Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy 08 May , 2025
India-Pakistan escalation sparks calls for restraint
Cartoons

India-Pakistan escalation sparks calls for restraint

Fares Garabet 07 May , 2025
Opinion

India-Pakistan escalation raises fears of nuclear conflagration

When two nuclear-armed powers square up to each other as India and Pakistan have done over the disputed territory of Kashmir, the rest of the world…

Con Coughlin 07 May , 2025
Metal debris lies on the ground in Wuyan in south Kashmir's Pulwama district on May 7, 2025. REUTERS/Sharafat Ali
Politics

India strikes Pakistan in 'largest aerial attack in 50 years'

Shortly after midnight on 7 May, exactly two weeks after a terrorist attack in Kashmir, Indian missiles streaked into Pakistan. Pakistan’s army said…

The Economist 07 May , 2025

Gaza starvation, Vietnam War commemoration and papal selection

May, 2025
Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP
Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP

Rahaf Ayyad, a 12-year-old Palestinian who is suffering from malnutrition due to an Israeli-imposed starvation campaign, sits at a school-turned-shelter in al-Rimal in central Gaza City on May 4, 2025.

REUTERS / Darrin Zammit Lupi
REUTERS / Darrin Zammit Lupi

Activists are prevented from approaching the damaged Gaza Freedom Flotilla vessel "Conscience", after Israel bombed it while carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza, at sea outside Maltese territorial waters, on May 3, 2025.

MANAN VATSYAYANA / AFP
MANAN VATSYAYANA / AFP

Soldiers march during a parade marking the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War in Ho Chi Minh City on April 30, 2025.

REUTERS / Stoyan Nenov
REUTERS / Stoyan Nenov

Christian pilgrims inspired by the medieval Knights Templar order walk towards St. Peter's Basilica at St. Peter's Square, ahead of the conclave to elect the next pope on May 4, 2025.

REUTERS / Louisa Gouliamaki
REUTERS / Louisa Gouliamaki

People descend the Bramante Staircase at the Vatican Museum during a press tour ahead of the conclave, at the Vatican on May 2, 2025.

OLGA MALTSEVA / AFP
OLGA MALTSEVA / AFP

Russian T-90M tanks drive across Dvortsovaya Square during a rehearsal for Victory Day, where Russia will celebrate the 80th anniversary of the 1945 defeat of Nazi Germany, on May 3, 2025.

CNS / AFP
CNS / AFP

Chinese astronaut Cai Xuzhe sits on a chair as ground crew help remove two more Shenzhou-19 astronauts from their capsule after they landed in China’s Inner Mongolia region on April 30, 2025.

REUTERS / Khalid Abdelaziz
REUTERS / Khalid Abdelaziz

A view shows a large plume of smoke rising from a fuel depot in Port Sudan, Sudan, on May 6, 2025.

REUTERS / Lesley Martin
REUTERS / Lesley Martin

A person reacts during the Beltane Fire Festival, inspired by ancient Celtic and Pagan May Day rituals celebrating the coming of summer, at Calton Hill in Edinburgh, Scotland, Britain, on April 30, 2025.

Arun SANKAR / AFP
Arun SANKAR / AFP

A young Buddhist monk looks on as he walks after reciting morning prayers at the Gyuto Monastery in Dharamsala, India, on May 5, 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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