Over the past few weeks, a political chain reaction has gone off in Libya, and its shockwaves will reverberate across the region. That is the…

The election to Israel’s 26th Knesset has failed to produce a decisive result, leaving considerable uncertainty over the formation of the next…

No matter who eventually emerges victorious from Israel’s deadlocked general election result, the likelihood that the next prime minister will make…

During the Cold War, African independence movements often received Soviet sponsorship, whether through diplomacy, defence, financing, training,…

Al Majalla selected The Struggle for Power as the title of this week’s cover story because Israel’s elections raise questions that reach far beyond…

Since becoming president of the Institut du monde arabe in Paris, Anne-Claire Legendre has sought to redefine the institution's role as it approaches…

A deadly raid on an alleged Islamic State (IS) cell in Rankous, rural Damascus, has exposed another challenge facing Syria’s security transition. The…

Rio de Janeiro: Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won reelection by more than 3.5 percentage points in the country’s runoff election on…

In 1998, Iran was hours away from invading Afghanistan after the Taliban killed 11 senior Iranian diplomats in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif…