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Gaza war stalls Biden's Mideast disengagement plan

The Gaza crisis may have forced US President Joe Biden to review his plan to withdraw US forces from Syria and Iraq, but there still remains a strong…

Con Coughlin 29 February , 2024
Opinion

The China model is the best bet for developing countries

The “China model” concept began taking hold after Beijing recorded impressive economic growth after 30 years of opening-up and reform policies…

Becky Shen 22 February , 2024
Syrian President Shukri al-Quwatli and his Egyptian counterpart Gamal Abdel Nasser sign the union agreement between their countries in Damascus on 22 February 1958. The union lasted until 1961. AFP
Documents & Memoirs

The United Arab Republic: A look at Egypt and Syria's shortlived union

On 11 January 1958, 14 Syrian officers drove to the airport, boarding a charter flight headed for Cairo. Carrying no passports and dressed in full…

Sami Moubayed 22 February , 2024
Is the Russian bear right to be bullish on its economy? The answer is not straightforward. Laura Salafia
Business & Economy

After two years of war, can Russia be bullish on its economy?

“Despite the—let’s be honest—pessimistic prognoses that were made and that continue to be made by some experts today, mostly Western experts, of…

Nazareth Seferian 22 February , 2024
A Palestinian child gestures as people bury their dead who were killed during overnight Israeli strikes at a cemetery in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on February 21, 2024. AFP
Politics

An Israeli assault on Rafah could send the region spiralling. A deal might save it.

Diplomats are racing to broker a ceasefire agreement in time to avoid what many see as a worst-case scenario: An Israeli offensive in the southern…

Michael Horowitz 22 February , 2024
US vetoes Gaza ceasefire resolution for third time
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US vetoes Gaza ceasefire resolution for third time

Fares Garabet 21 February , 2024

ICJ hears case on Israeli occupation as West Bank reels under attacks

February, 2024
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AFP

Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Palestinian Authority Riyad al-Maliki (R) at the International Court of Justice at a hearing on the legal consequences of the Israeli occupation on February 19, 2024, in The Hague.

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Reuters

Pro-Palestinian protesters demonstrate in front of the ICJ as the court hears the legal consequences of Israel's occupation of Palestinian land at The Hague, Netherlands, on February 19 2024.

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Reuters

Judge Nawaf Salam, president of the ICJ speaks during a public hearing on the legal consequences of Israel's occupation of Palestinian land in The Hague, Netherlands, February 19, 2024.

Reuters
Reuters

Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki and Palestinian UN envoy Riyad Mansour give a statement to the media following the ICJ hearing in the Hague, Netherlands, February 19, 2024.

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AFP

Relatives mourn at the start of the funeral of 26-year-old Palestinian Anas Dweikat in the West Bank town of Rujayb, east of Nablus, on February 19, 2024, after he was shot dead by Israeli forces the previous day at a checkpoint.

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AFP

Mourners carry the body of Anas Dweikat, 26, during his funeral in the West Bank town of Rujeib, east of Nablus, on February 19, 2024.

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AFP

Palestinians inspect a car burnt in a reported attack the previous night by Israeli settlers in the village of Burqa, northwest of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, on February 20, 2024.

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AFP

Palestinian Majid Saif, who was injured in a reported attack the previous night by Israeli settlers in the village of Burqa, northwest of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, speaks on his phone in the village on February 20, 2024.

A deal in Brussels to update the bloc’s 25-year-old Stability and Growth Pact on spending and borrowing rules could lead to new EU bonds and regulations. Yet it could also help the populist far-right. shutterstock
Business & Economy

Rules reviewed: EU fiscal discipline agreed — but with ‘flexibility’

After more than two years of negotiations and 16 hours of talks in Brussels, the European Union finally reached a preliminary agreement on revising…

Toufic Chanbour 21 February , 2024
Former prime minister Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party nominee for prime minister, Omar Ayub Khan (R), speaks during a press conference at PTI's central secretariat in Islamabad on February 18, 2024. AFP
Politics

Pakistan poll aftermath doesn't bode well for India relations

Many observers tied Imran Khan's ouster to geopolitical currents via a vote of confidence in the National Assembly in April 2022 — specifically…

Shakir Husain 21 February , 2024
Aid trucks are lined up next to a large cement fence near the border with Gaza, which Egypt says will be a 'logistics zone' to receive aid for Gaza. Reuters
Politics

Egypt logistics zone to ease aid delivery to Gaza

Egypt's construction of a logistical zone in Sinai near the border with the Gaza Strip is 60% complete. The zone is divided into four sections and…

Amr Emam 21 February , 2024
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Politics

Houthis seek expansion after reaching Bab al-Mandab

17, Sep 2026

After rapid advances, the Yemeni rebel group is fortifying its positions along the vital maritime chokepoint, while intensifying pressure in southwestern Taiz, northern Lahj, and Marib

Ibrahim Jalal
Al Majalla
Culture & Social Affairs

Backlash over Macklemore ban shows major US culture shift

16, Sep 2026

The American rapper's removal from Ed Sheeran's tour over his 'Free Palestine' speech and the British singer's meek rebuttal sparked an uproar on social media

Samer Abou Hawwach
Axel Rangel García
Politics

Francesca Albanese: the Palestine question is a global one

16, Sep 2026

In an interview with Al Majalla, the UN Special Rapporteur says the backlash against her for speaking out against Israel's genocide in Gaza reveals much about the current international order

Elie Kossaifi
Al Majalla
Business & Economy

AI data centres: the costliest infrastructure race in history?

17, Sep 2026

Investment could reach $50tn by 2050, but electricity, semiconductors and data laws will determine where the factories of the new economy are built

Abdel-Rahman Ayas
India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi shares a moment with Russian President Vladimir Putin as Chinese President Xi Jinping looks on during day two of the BRICS Summit in New Delhi, India, on 13 September 2026. REUTERS
Politics

Only China, India, and Russia can end the Iran war

15, Sep 2026

Washington needs its rivals to create peace on its behalf

Amir Handjani

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