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A storm casts a rainbow along the coast of Barcelona in Spain on 1 April 2024.

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Ahead of the summer season opening, a sculptor takes a break at Weymouth's SandWorld Sculpture Park in the UK on 27 March 2024.

Michelle Spatari / AFP
Michelle Spatari / AFP

A man prays during Ramadan in the middle of the salt Lake Karum, in the Danakil Depression of the Afar region, in the heart of the Horn of Africa.

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Mikhail Metzel / AFP

Russia's President Vladimir Putin visits the 344th Army Aviation Centre of aircrews combat training and transition in Torzhok in the Tver region on 27 March 2024.

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AFP

A police officer stands guard at a border checkpoint during a sandstorm in Erenhot in northern China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region on 27 March 2024.

Arif Ali / AFP
Arif Ali / AFP

Christians attend a Good Friday mass at Sacred Heart Cathedral in Lahore on 29 March 2024.

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AFP

The Jordanian army conduct a humanitarian aid airdrop over the northern Gaza Strip on 31 March 2024.

Ahmad Gharabli / AFP
Ahmad Gharabli / AFP

Christian worshippers and clergy circle the Unction Stone at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem on Easter Sunday.

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Morteza Nikoubazl / Getty Images

Iranian protesters shout anti-Israeli and anti-U.S. slogans after an Israeli air strike against the Iranian consulate in Syria, on 1 April 2024.

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Chris McGrath / Getty Images

Flares and dancing as supporters celebrate the victory of Ekrem Imamoglu, Istanbul mayor and Republican People's Party (CHP) candidate, on 1 April 2024 in Istanbul, Turkey.

The story of football in Syria is the story of the country's social and political development Al Majalla / Alamy
Culture & Social Affairs

Football in Syria shows the social and political change of a nation

At the end of the school year in 1910, two students returned to Damascus from the American University in Beirut with their books, kit, and a new…

Nawwar Jabbour 03 April , 2024
Opinion

Palestine rallies show empathy for Gaza, not support for Hamas

Hamas named its 7 October attacks on Israel after the religious buildings in the old city of Jerusalem, including a famous mosque, which have become…

Alia Mansour 03 April , 2024
An Iranian 5,000 Rial note. Sky-high inflation is still causing lots of problems, despite growth figures being buoyed by oil. Shutterstock
Business & Economy

Tehran's press mourns Iran's economy... with worse to come

On 20 March, Iranians celebrated the arrival of the year 1403 according to the Persian Hijri solar calendar.Reading the country’s newspapers about…

Hanan Azizi 02 April , 2024
The US claims to champion the rules-based international system, but doing so requires that all states be held accountable for their actions - even allies. Lina Jaradat
Politics

The US is destroying the international system along with Gaza

For over five months, the world has witnessed an unfolding humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza.The videos of parents searching for their children buried…

Assal Rad 02 April , 2024
Cyber security in the Middle East by threats and revenue Diana Estefanía Rubio
Infographics

Cyber security in the Middle East by threats and revenue

Cyber threats are continually developing in sophistication and impact, despite the advances in cyber-security technologies and practice.Cyber crime…

Al Majalla - London 02 April , 2024
Emergency personnel extinguish a fire at the site of strikes which hit a building next to the Iranian embassy in Damascus on 1 April 2024. AFP
Politics

The last red line: Iran consulate strike shows the gloves are off

In the nearly six months of regional conflict that followed Hamas’s attack on Israel on 7 October 2023, many of the red lines that have traditionally…

Charles Lister 01 April , 2024
A woman reacts as she inspects damages at Al Shifa Hospital after Israeli forces withdrew. Reuters
Politics

An Arab perspective on the Gaza War after six months of conflict

Since the start of the Israeli offensive on Gaza, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has sought to stop three things and start one.It has sought to stop the…

Hesham Alghannam 01 April , 2024
Saudi nature spots and oases are included in the sites set to be further developed for tourism. Shutterstock
Business & Economy

Saudi Arabia now leads the Middle East in tourist numbers

While hydrocarbons have long been a major source of income for Saudi Arabia, so too has pilgrimage, given that it is the birthplace and nerve centre…

Amer Ziab Al-Tamimi 01 April , 2024
Opposition CHP supporters celebrate as it emerges that the Party has defeated the ruling AK Party in local elections across the country. AFP
Politics

Erdoğan’s AKP Party limps out of local elections in second

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who was victorious in presidential and general elections just less than a year ago in May 2023, suffered a…

Omer Onhon 01 April , 2024
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Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei addresses Iranians on the occasion of the 36th anniversary of the death of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (portrait), in Tehran on June 4, 2025. KHAMENEI.IR / AFP
Profiles

How Israel upended Khamenei’s strategic patience doctrine

21 June 2025

For decades, Iran's supreme leader—first Khomeini, then Khamenei—pursued a strategy of backing regional militias to fight Israel, but with the 'resistance axis' in tatters, Iran is left to fight alone

Arash Azizi
Eduardo Ramon
Politics

How Israel pulled off its unprecedented strike on Iran

18 June 2025

Years of painstaking intelligence work went into the operation that activated vast networks of operatives and involved multiple layers of subterfuge

Michael Horowitz
A demonstrator holds a picture of Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, while gathering with others during a rally in solidarity with the government against Israel's attacks on Iran on June 14, 2025. ATTA KENARE / AFP
Politics

Iran is further from regime change than Israel thinks

17 June 2025

Israel sees an opportunity to eliminate a strategic regional rival, but the future course of events primarily hinges on what Trump decides to do next

Houssam Itani
Michelle Thompson.
Business & Economy

What would happen if Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz?

18 June 2025

The strait carries up to 20% of the world's oil exports at around 20 million barrels of oil each day. Any closure could cost the global economy greatly, even if only for a short time.

Amer Ziab Al-Tamimi
Eduardo Ramon
Politics

Will Iran-Israel strikes derail Trump's Mideast vision?

14 June 2025

Trump and Netanyahu disagree on whether to use military force to stop Iran's nuclear programme, and Israel's punishing attack on Iran places the region on a worrisome trajectory

Robert Ford

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