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How Europe helps keep Hezbollah in business Eduardo Ramon
Business & Economy

How Europe helps keep Hezbollah in business

Hezbollah can lose fighters, commanders, territory and access and still survive if its money survives. That is the uncomfortable lesson Europe should…

Lina Khatib 07 May , 2026
A Syrian army soldier stands guard next to an armoured vehicle positioned along the Syrian–Lebanese border in the rural area of Al Qusayr on 1 April 2026. BAKR ALKASEM / AFP
Politics

Iran steps up Syria destabilisation efforts

Iran’s attempts to destabilise Syria have continued since its strategic project collapsed with the fall of the Assad regime on 8 December 2024. Since…

Subhi Franjieh 07 May , 2026
UK local elections: is Labour doomed? Axel Rangel Garcia
Politics

UK local elections: is Labour doomed?

A day of reckoning looms, and every political observer in Britain knows it, a day of what President Obama would call ‘a shellacking’. May's local…

Bryn Haworth 07 May , 2026
Opinion

Choosing the path that spills less Lebanese blood

Anyone who thinks Hezbollah can be disarmed by force is deluded. More deluded still is anyone who believes the party would, under any circumstances,…

Houssam Itani 07 May , 2026
Turkish fighter jets fly over a warship in Kyrenia, in the self-declared Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. AFP
Politics

How the Iran war changed Türkiye’s security calculus

Having spent weeks watching Israel attack Iran, after 2.5 years spent attacking Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen, there are signs that Türkiye may now…

Rustum Mahmud 07 May , 2026
A woman tours the calligraphy museum at Sharjah Centre for the Art of Arabic Calligraphy and Ornamentation, in the United Arab Emirates, on 19 December 2021. Giuseppe CACACE / AFP
Culture & Social Affairs

Arabic calligraphy: the Nabataeans' gift to the world

Standing before the archaeological remains of the Nabataean kingdom, with the vast rock-cut façades of AlUla and Mada’in Salih carved into the…

Abdullah Al-Rashid 07 May , 2026
Trump presses pause on Project Freedom
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Trump presses pause on Project Freedom

Fares Garabet 06 May , 2026
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan delivers a speech during talks with the French President in Yerevan on 5 May 2026. AFP
Politics

Armenia’s foreign policy to be tested at the ballot box

The war in Ukraine over the past four years and the effects of this year’s Iran war have propelled global energy security to the top of the global…

Omer Onhon 06 May , 2026
Opinion

Israeli demining on Syria's border isn't what it seems

Amid a news cycle dominated by the war on Iran, Israel’s activities in Syria have largely slipped under the radar. One recent development, however,…

Haid Haid 06 May , 2026
Global airfares soar amid ongoing US-Iran turmoil Sara Padovan
Business & Economy

Global airfares soar amid ongoing US-Iran turmoil

Since late February, airline ticket prices have surged for flights taking specific routes, exposing the uneven effects of geopolitical tensions and…

Abdel-Rahman Ayas 06 May , 2026
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Pep Boatella
Politics

Al-Jawf: the key to defeating the Houthis

05, Nov 2026

The battle for this strategically important and resource-rich province tests the Yemeni army's ability to tilt the military balance in its favour

Al Majalla - London
Eduardo Ramon
Profiles

Abdul El-Sayed: the progressive Michigander who beat the pro-Israel lobby

07, Aug 2026

The Egyptian-American epidemiologist became the first Muslim senator in US history, despite $70mn spent to defeat him in the Democratic primary

Tarek Rashed
Politics

Can the Democrats prevent a new round of war with Iran?

05, Nov 2026

Despite the war's unpopularity, Trump seems determined to press on until he can claim a decisive victory, whether by diplomacy, force, or a combination of the two

Aqeel Abbas
Opinion

Trump may be a lame duck at home but not abroad

05, Nov 2026

A Democrat-majority Congress will clip his wings at home, but he will have far more freedom to act on foreign affairs, given the powers he still retains as commander-in-chief

Con Coughlin
French author Philippe Djianada looks out from a window at the Drouant restaurant in Paris, following his win of the French Goncourt literary prize for his novel "The Unknown Woman of Quai de Javel," on 3 November 2026. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann
Culture & Social Affairs

A novel about a murder in Paris wins the 2026 Goncourt

06, Nov 2026

French novelist Philippe Jaenada's novel 'The Unknown Woman of Quai de Javel' wins big, while the Prix Renaudot goes to François-Henri Désérable for his novel about an unlikely wine expert

Najeeb Mubarak

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