Across much of the world, national currencies are under strain. At street level, values evaporate, and confidence collapses, affecting vendors and…

Israel likes to project to the world an image of military and intelligence prowess. It points to its decapitation of Iran’s leadership, its weakening…

About a week ago, Syria's interior ministry announced that ongoing investigations into the disappearance of the children of Dr Abdul Rahman Yassin…

With the thorny issue of migration posing one of the key challenges facing the premiership of UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, publication of the…

The Arab world has a vibrant and rich literary scene. Al Majalla picks out some choice titles in our fortnightly round-up of the latest Arabic books,…

The furious row that has erupted between the White House and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this week reflects US President Donald Trump’s…

The risk of nuclear confrontation was said to have diminished in the post-Cold War period. But today, the logic of nuclear deterrence seems to be…

With US-Israeli strikes against Iran earlier this year aimed in part at curtailing Iran’s nuclear ambitions, the subject of atomic weapons has once…

On 19 May, Russia began a large-scale military exercise that lasted three days, during which nuclear weapons were transferred to field storage…

A year after the brief but ferocious four-day conflict between Pakistan and India pushed South Asia to the edge of a nuclear precipice, the silence…