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A Hezbollah member carries a weapon which sources familiar with its arsenal said is used to counter drones, during a religious procession to mark Ashura in Beirut's southern suburbs on 17 July 2024. Aziz Taher / Reuters
Politics

Israel is winning the intelligence war with Hezbollah. Will it matter?

Hezbollah is no stranger to high-level, targeted killings by Israel, but the past few months have been especially deadly. Israel has rebounded from…

Bilal Saab 18 July , 2024
Opinion

A renewed culture war in America

As far as we can discern, if Donald Trump secures victory in the upcoming November presidential elections, his subsequent term promises to be…

Houssam Itani 18 July , 2024

From assassination attempts to festivals, football, and tennis

Kim Kwung-Hoon / Reuters
Kim Kwung-Hoon / Reuters

A woman in yukata, or casual summer kimonos, is reflected in the glass of a board during the annual Mitama Festival at the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, Japan, on 13 July 2024.

Ahmad Al-Rubaye / AFP
Ahmad Al-Rubaye / AFP

Shiite Muslims take part in a mourning ritual in Baghdad on 11 July 2024, during the Muslim month of Muharram, in the lead up to Ashura.

Eyad Baba / AFP
Eyad Baba / AFP

A woman feeds her child a formula of anise, due to lack of baby formula, in a camp for people displaced by conflict in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on 11 July 2024.

Henry Nicholls / AFP
Henry Nicholls / AFP

Italy's Jasmine Paolini in action against Czech opponent Barbora Krejcikova in the women's singles final of the 2024 Wimbledon Tennis Championship. Krejcikova won in three sets.

Luis Tato / AFP
Luis Tato / AFP

A Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) supporter waiting for the President of Rwanda and presidential candidate Paul Kagame during an election campaign rally in Kigali on 13 July 2024.

Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images via AFP
Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images via AFP

Secret Service officers tend to Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump onstage at a rally on 13 July 2024 in Butler, Pennsylvania, after he survived an assassination attempt.

I-Hwa Cheng / AFP
I-Hwa Cheng / AFP

A Taiwanese soldier takes part in the changing of the guard ceremony outside the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall in Taipei on 15 July 2024.

Dimitar Dilkoff / AFP
Dimitar Dilkoff / AFP

Drones and fireworks illuminate the sky, creating the image of Marianne wearing the Phrygian cap, in front of the Eiffel Tower on Bastille Day on 14 July 2024.

Yang Bo / VCG via Getty Images
Yang Bo / VCG via Getty Images

Aerial view of workers growing water spinach on ecological floating beds on 9 July 2024 in Hangzhou City, Zhejiang, China.

Eddie Keogh / Getty Images
Eddie Keogh / Getty Images

England football players walk out for the second half of the Euro 2024 final on 14 July 2024 in Berlin, Germany. They were beaten by Spain 2-1.

Judge Fayeq Zaidan, head of the Iraqi Supreme Judicial Council since 2017.
Politics

Iraq’s most senior judge Fayeq Zaidan thrice refused the role of PM

Iraq’s most senior judge, Fayeq Zaidan’s list of achievements is long, but none are more important than his hoisting of the country’s judiciary to…

Ibrahim Hamidi 17 July , 2024
Opinion

The United States has rarely felt less united. Cue the lone wolves

The failed attempt to assassinate Donald Trump should come as no surprise.Those who follow the former president’s statements and those of his…

Ibrahim Hamidi 17 July , 2024
How India’s deal to run Iran’s Chabahar port may help the Middle East navigate to a new future Shutterstock
Business & Economy

How India’s deal to run Iran’s Chabahar port may help the Middle East navigate to a new future

India has sealed a formal, long-term $370 million deal to operate the port in the Iranian city of Chabahar, in a development that will resonate…

Nazareth Seferian 17 July , 2024
Palestinians at the funeral of a victim of Israeli bombing in Khan Yunis in Gaza on 16 July 2024 Bashar Taleb/AFP
Politics

New Gaza Nakba deepens Palestinian divisions and differences

A new nakba (catastrophe) is unfolding in a war of extermination that Israel has been waging against Palestinians for nearly ten months.This conflict…

Majed Kayali 17 July , 2024
Opinion

The politics of education in Lebanon

A few days ago, Samir Geagea, the leader of the Lebanese Forces party, issued a demand on social media, aimed at the country’s education minister…

Alia Mansour 16 July , 2024
Republican 2024 presidential candidate Donald Trump is seen with blood on his face after being shot at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. He survived with only light injuries to his ear. Rebecca Droke/AFP
Politics

Trump shooting just the latest in a 160-year American tradition

Throughout history, from emperors to popes, kings to presidents, the bearers of high office have discovered its dark side: the ever-present threat of…

Con Coughlin 16 July , 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (R) in 2023. Russia has been mediating between Turkey and Syria. Mikhail Klimentyev/Reuters
Politics

First signs of a thaw? Russia nudges Erdoğan and Assad closer

There may be reason to believe that one of the Middle East's iciest relationships may be showing the first signs of a thaw.If the signs are to be…

Omer Onhon 16 July , 2024
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Trump, Sharaa, and the future of Syria

05 December 2025

There was visible warmth when the US and Syrian presidents met in the Oval Office last month, with some even speculating a Trump visit to Damascus. But there is much to do before that happens.

Robert Ford
AFP / Al Majalla
Politics

The GCC moves from ‘safe neutrality’ to ‘indivisible security’

05 December 2025

Following the unprecedented attacks on Qatar, Gulf leaders have pledged to forge a unified defence front, marking a historic shift from cautious neutrality to collective security

Omar Harkous
Jay Torres
Politics

The evolution of Latin America’s drug cartels

04 December 2025

What began as a locally rooted trade in coca leaves and opium evolved into a transnational system of cartels that challenged governments, corrupted institutions, and destabilised countries

Stefanie Butendieck Hijerra
AFP / Al Majalla
Politics

Why the US is asking Lebanon for its bomb back

05 December 2025

When Israel killed a Hezbollah military chief in late November, one GBU-39 bomb failed to detonate, leaving Washington worried that its adversaries could reverse engineer it

Michael Horowitz
Spanish poet Miriam Reyes Wikimedia Commons
Culture & Social Affairs

Spanish poet Miriam Reyes on escaping the prison of the page

03 December 2025

With her collection 'Con' having won Spain's 2025 National Poetry Prize, the Galician writer spoke to Al Majalla about the process of creation as she works on her first novel.

Mohammed Al-Bittari

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