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Ambulances arrive at the American University of Beirut Medical Center as more than 2,000 people, including Hezbollah fighters and medics, were wounded when their pagers exploded on September 17, 2024. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir
Politics

Pager attack deals painful but far from decisive blow to Hezbollah

Lebanon was reeling on Tuesday following the mass detonation of pagers throughout the country that has been blamed on Israel. Lebanon's information…

Lina Khatib 17 September , 2024
Yoav Gallant: Netanyahu sacks his defence minister and key critic Axel Rangel Garcia
Profiles

Yoav Gallant: Netanyahu sacks his defence minister and key critic

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has fired Defence Minister Yoav Gallant after months of clashes over domestic politics and Israel’s wars in…

Con Coughlin 15 October , 2024
Cancer on the rise in the Middle East Diana Estefanía Rubio
Infographics

Cancer on the rise in the Middle East

The number of cancer cases in the Middle East is slated for a 1.8-fold increase by 2030. While the top 15 cancers diagnosed in Arab countries…

Al Majalla - London 17 September , 2024
Opinion

A steady hand: Jerome Powell could be America’s swing voter

These are not easy days for Jerome Powell, the chairman of the US Federal Reserve (aka the Fed). In the testy, anxious run-up to a vital presidential…

Khaled Kassar 17 September , 2024
Are rats actually that bad? Shutterstock
Culture & Social Affairs

Are rats actually that bad?

At Tanzania’s Sokoine University of Agriculture, about 125 miles west of Dar es Salaam, there is a small memorial to Magawa, an awardee of the PDSA…

Bronwen Everill 17 September , 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (2L) and Defence Minister Yoav Gallant (R) sit during a commemoration ceremony for Israeli soldiers killed in Gaza on July 16, 2024. Abir Sultan/AFP
Politics

Why Israel constantly hesitates when it comes to Hezbollah

Since the conflict broke out in October last year, Israel has repeatedly threatened to carry out an operation in Lebanon to remove the threat posed…

Michael Horowitz 17 September , 2024
A flag hung over the stage waves in the wind at the event grounds where the rally was held, hours after Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt. REUTERS/Carlos Osorio
Politics

America’s election is mired in conflict

Even without Donald Trump on the ballot, American elections tend to create conflict. America is the only proper presidential democracy in which the…

The Economist 16 September , 2024
Opinion

Why Syria and Iran are letting Israeli air strikes go unanswered

Two years ago, Israel’s defence minister, Benny Gantz, unveiled a map that showed where facilities run by the Syrian regime were manufacturing…

Alia Mansour 21 September , 2024
A peshmerga fighter poses in front of a wall with a large fresco of the flag of Kurdistan. The fort overlooks Artush, a major oil refinery. Getty
Business & Economy

Baghdad cuts Kurdistan’s oil revenue and independence hopes

Not long ago, oil exports from Kurdistan were central to Kurdish hopes of full independence in this semi-autonomous region of northern Iraq. Yet…

Baraa Sabri 16 September , 2024
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan addresses an Arab League Foreign Ministers meeting at the organisation's headquarters in Cairo on September 10, 2024. Khaled Desouki / AFP
Politics

Syria-Turkey normalisation has a long way to go

When Turkey’s Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan stepped into the hall where the foreign ministers of the Arab League convened earlier this month in Cairo,…

Omer Onhon 16 September , 2024
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Iranians mark 40 days since Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in US-Israeli strikes at a demonstration in Tehran on 9 April, 2026. Majid Asgaripour / AFP
Politics

The US and Iran mull next moves amid shaky truce

10 April 2026

Washington weighs the desire to avoid a protracted war with offsetting the appearance of defeat, as Tehran debates whether to consolidate gains before conditions shift or press perceived advantages

Alex Vatanka
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
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
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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