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How Iraq became a key conduit in the global drug trade Lina Jaradat
Business & Economy

How Iraq became a key conduit in the global drug trade

Over the past five years, Iraq has become a major consumer, producer and trafficker of synthetic drugs. Amid security breakdowns and civil strife,…

Salam Zaidan 29 October , 2024
A man walks through the meeting hall where the yearly Future Investment Initiative (FII) conference is held in the Saudi capital Riyadh on October 24, 2023. AFP
Business & Economy

Saudi investment summit set to unveil $28bn in deals

The health of any nation’s economy is sustained by its key industrial sectors, which in turn may be shaped by its natural resources and geographical…

Turki Harbi 29 October , 2024
Israel is the only country ever to be created by the UN yet also the country that has most violated the UN's resolutions Nash Weerasekera
Politics

Israel ramps up its 'war' on the United Nations

In violation of international humanitarian law and the United Nation's own charter, Israel’s Knesset on Monday banned the United Nations Agency for…

Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy 29 October , 2024
Opinion

Conflict in the Middle East: The cost of inaction

Israel’s mission to eradicate Hamas in Gaza following the group’s killing of over 1,200 Israelis on 7 October 2023 has expanded into a much wider…

Neil Quilliam 28 October , 2024
Opinion

Iran-Israel strikes normalise the militarisation of the Middle East

In recent months, a string of high-stakes confrontations between Iran and Israel have unfolded before the world’s eyes. Under different circumstances…

Ibrahim Hamidi 29 October , 2024
The Russian artist who captured Morocco like no other Al Majalla
Culture & Social Affairs

The Russian artist who captured Morocco like no other

Among the most distinctive works of Russian artist Zinaida Serebriakova are the paintings she created in Morocco. She made two trips to the North…

Ismail Ghazaly 28 October , 2024
Egyptian troops pose atop a bunker on which they just planted their flag on the Israeli Bar Lev line east of the Suez Canal, Egypt, on October 13, 1973. AP
Documents & Memoirs

How are wars named?

After the collective Arab defeat in the June 1967 war with Israel, Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser delivered a famous speech saying: “We cannot…

Sami Moubayed 28 October , 2024
Iran and Israel carefully calculate their next moves
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Iran and Israel carefully calculate their next moves

Fares Garabet 28 October , 2024
Syria's highly sophisticated Captagon industry goes global Lina Jaradat
Politics

Syria's highly sophisticated Captagon industry goes global

Syria, by no means, has been a stranger to illicit activity. For years—long before the advent of Syria’s civil war—its borders have played host to…

Caroline Rose 28 October , 2024
Opinion

Will Israel's attacks shake al-Qard al-Hasan client confidence?

Last week, Israel carried out a series of air strikes across Lebanon, targeting over ten branches of al-Qard al-Hasan—a financial institution…

Haid Haid 27 October , 2024
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Grace Russell
Politics

Gulf states should steer clear of attritional war traps

01 April 2026

The US-Israeli war against Iran aims to draw in Gulf states, but history has shown that entering wars is far easier than exiting them. Prudence is needed now more than ever.

Khairuldeen Al Makhzoomi
Palestinian Foreign Minister Varsen Aghabekian Shahin speaks at a press conference in Ljubljana, Slovenia, on 25 August, 2025. Luka Dakskobler / Getty
Politics

'Israel is exploiting Iran war to kill a Palestinian state'

01 April 2026

PA Foreign Minister Varsen Aghabekian Shahin tells Al Majalla that Israel is taking advantage of the fact that the world is distracted by the US-Iran war to create irreversible facts on the ground

Ahmed Maher
Ewan White
Politics

Iraq's internal battle for influence comes to a head

31 March 2026

New fronts have opened up across the region in light of the US-Israeli war on Iran, as non-state actors with links to Tehran fear for their futures

Rustum Mahmud
People gather during a celebration called by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) at the Umayyad Square, after the ousting of Syria's Bashar al-Assad, in Damascus, Syria, 20 December, 2024. Reuters / Ammar
Business & Economy

US-Iran war gives Syria's global economic pitch more urgency

01 April 2026

Given the effective closure of the Hormuz Strait and Houthi threats to close off the Red Sea, Syria may emerge as a corridor and conduit to bypass these embattled maritime chokepoints

Charles Lister
Farid al-Madhan Reuters/ Al Majalla
Politics

Farid al-Madhan: Assad's fingerprints were on every picture

31 March 2026

A former army forensics employee who later became known as Caesar tells Al Majalla how he risked his life to expose the torture and killing of countless Syrians in regime prisons

Ibrahim Hamidi

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