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Syrian Red Crescent rescuers attend to displaced people arriving from Lebanon at the Jdeidat Yabus border crossing in southwestern Syria on October 7, 2024. LOUAI BESHARA / AFP
Business & Economy

War in Lebanon puts Syria's already struggling economy under further strain

Damascus’s deep economic reliance on Lebanon, shaped by years of conflict and international sanctions, has made regime-controlled areas particularly…

Haid Haid 13 October , 2024
Opinion

'Resistance' claims of victory ring hollow amid Lebanon's smoky ruins

An interview with Reuters this week by senior Hamas official Khaled Meshaal and a video statement from Hezbollah’s deputy leader Naim Qassem around…

Houssam Itani 12 October , 2024
Author Ta-Nehisi Coates is seen onstage during the Alight Align Arise: Advancing the Movement for Repair National Conference at Thompson Buckhead on June 7, 2023, in Atlanta, Georgia. Carol Lee Rose/AFP
Culture & Social Affairs

Ta-Nehisi Coates’s not-so-radical departure

Not long after I finished reading The Message, New York magazine ran a cover story on the book’s author headlined “The Return of Ta-Nehisi Coates.”…

Deborah Baker 12 October , 2024
How Israel's tech prowess might shape the future of warfare Al Majalla
Science & Technology

How Israel's tech prowess might shape the future of warfare

Thanks to massive investment from some of the industry's biggest names, Israel's cutting-edge tech sector is among the best in the world. Carefully…

Abdulfattah Khattab 12 October , 2024
Would Trump and Harris drastically differ on Mideast policy? Sam Green
Politics

Would Trump and Harris drastically differ on Mideast policy?

Republicans' Project 2025Donald Trump and the Republican Party were clear about Iran. Project 2025, the policy programme prepared by Republican Party…

Robert Ford 12 October , 2024
The aftermath of an Israeli air strike in Beirut's southern suburb of Rouweiss neighbourhood on October 10, 2024, after Netanyahu said Lebanon could face "Gaza-like" destruction. Anwar AMRO / AFP
Politics

A walk through Dahiyeh shows why residents call it ‘the second Nakba’

Beirut's southern suburb has hardly been out of the headlines in recent weeks, as Israel’s armed forces pound the population centre in their war…

Badia Fahs 11 October , 2024
UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Cate Blanchett meets with refugee students during a visit to Gorum refugee camp in South Sudan, on July 10, 2023. Reuters
Culture & Social Affairs

Shocking testimony emerges of systematic rape in Sudan

The civil war in Sudan that began in early 2023 triggered a wave of human suffering across the country—aspects of which are only now gaining…

Hadil Arja 11 October , 2024
Opinion

Amid Gaza's decimation, words have lost all meaning

A Palestinian man carries his brother’s severed arm, the only part of him that remains. He carries it in a daze through a land of ruin as a group of…

Samer Abou Hawwach 10 October , 2024
Iran's regional "axis of resistance" unravels
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Iran's regional "axis of resistance" unravels

Fares Garabet 10 October , 2024
A malfunctioning Bank of Palestine ATM in Rafah, Gaza, on April 2, 2024. Getty
Business & Economy

Gaza's suffering compounded by shrinking access to cash

Among the long list of casualties of Israel's war on Gaza is the running of vital day-to-day financial transactions. Palestinians have been suffering…

Salem Al Rayyes 10 October , 2024
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People shout slogans as they gather after a two-week ceasefire in the Iran war was announced, in Tehran, Iran, 8 April 2026. Majid Asgaripour / Reuters
Politics

US-Iran ceasefire unlikely to hold

07 April 2026

If the ceasefire collapses, China has an interest in getting the two sides back to the table, but it would be a difficult task given Tehran's deep mistrust of the US and Israel.

Xiaotong Yang
Al Majalla
Politics

5 unanswered questions on the US-Iran ceasefire

09 April 2026

The fragile truce faces significant obstacles.

John Haltiwanger
Al Majalla
Politics

The US-Iran war tanked Trump's popularity at home

07 April 2026

Instead of the "no endless wars" they were promised, Americans were thrown into a disastrous war and were feeling the economic pinch at the gas pump

Brian Katulis
Awami Rickshaw Union workers holding posters of Pakistan's Chief of Army Staff, Field Marshal Asim Munir, shout slogans after the US and Iran agreed to a two-week ceasefire in Lahore on 8 April 2026. Arif ALI / AFP
Politics

Behind the truce: Pakistan mediation proves pivotal

08 April 2026

Islamabad is humming with behind-the-scenes diplomacy to turn this tentative pause into lasting peace.

Kaswar Klasra
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir shake hands during a session at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on 29 March 2026. Reuters
Politics

Palestinian executions are now official Israel policy

08 April 2026

Israel's parliament approved a draconian death penalty law last week that only applies to Palestinian prisoners, in a move that the UN says "would constitute a war crime"

Khaled Essam Eleslamboly

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