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People attend the Soundstorm music festival, organized by MDLBEAST, in Banban on the outskirts of the Saudi capital Riyadh on December 16, 2021. AFP
Culture & Social Affairs

Music in Saudi Arabia tunes into a new and modernised future

Times are changing for music in Saudi Arabia. After introducing art education in schools and universities, theatres in the Kingdom are now hosting…

Nawwar Jabbour 29 June , 2023
This video grab shows Yevgeny Prigozhin speaking in Bakhmut. AFP
Politics

How Prigozhin's overestimation ended in his humiliation

Once a country commits a serious strategic miscalculation, it then goes into damage control mode. Any action it takes to rectify the misstep can soon…

Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy 29 June , 2023
Opinion

Are Putin's days numbered?

Russian President Vladimir Putin may have survived the mutiny launched by his former protege, Yevgeny Prigozhin, but the Wagner Group leader’s…

Con Coughlin 28 June , 2023

Muslims around the world celebrate Eid al-Adha

June, 2023
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Reuters

Palestinians celebrate the first day of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha in Al Haram Al Sharif in Jerusalem's Old City June 28, 2023.

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SPA

Muslim pilgrims arriving to perform the symbolic stoning of the devil ritual, as part of the Hajj pilgrimage in Mina near Saudi Arabia's holy city of Mecca on June 28, 2023.

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AP

Muslims greet each other after prayers on the first day of Eid al-Adha holiday at the Sunni shrine of Abdul-Qadir al-Gailani in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, June 28, 2023.

Reuters
Reuters

Muslims stand in front of Al-Amin mosque in downtown Beirut after their prayer on the first day of Eid al-Adha in Beirut, Lebanon June 28, 2023.

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AFP

Emirati Muslims exchange wishes after Eid al-Adha morning prayers at Dubai's main mosque on June 28, 2023.

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EPA

Muslims congregate during Eid al-Adha after a prayer in front of the Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque in Istanbul, Turkey, 28 June 2023

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EPA

Police officers stand guard while muslims attend morning prayers to celebrate Eid al-Adha near the Moscow Cathedral Mosque in Moscow, Russia, 28 June 2023.

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EPA

Muslim women buy a balloon for a child as believers gather at a park for morning prayers marking Eid al-Adha in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines, 28 June 2023.

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AFP

Muslim worshippers perform the Eid Al-Adha morning prayer in Sudan's eastern Gedaref region, on June 28, 2023. Fighting raged in the Sudanese capital on the eve of the Muslim holiday, after paramilitaries seized the capital Khartoum

AFP
AFP

A man entertains children as Muslims worshippers gather at Al Haram Al Sharif in Jerusalem to perform Eid Al-Adha morning prayer, on June 28, 2023.

A woman walks in an unpaved but central street in the town north of Baghdad. Tarmiyah, Iraq. March 20, 2023. Shelly Kittleson
Politics

Iraq tries to root out IS remnants in farms north of the capital

Tarmiyah: An Iraqi Air Force strike reportedly killed several Islamic State (IS) fighters on 17 June in a largely agricultural area less than an hour…

Shelly Kittleson 28 June , 2023
In this file photo taken on March 3, 2019, smoke and fire billow after shelling on the Islamic State group's last holdout of Baghouz, in the eastern Syrian Deir Ezzor province. Al Majalla and AFP
Politics

Nine years after 'Islamic State' founded in Syria and Iraq, terrorism threat remains ever-present

On 29 June 2014, Islamic State (IS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi announced the formation of a caliphate stretching from Mosul in Iraq to Raqqa in…

Al Majalla - London 28 June , 2023
Al Majalla takes an exclusive tour inside Al-Hol camp in Syria, where IS families are housed with no promising prospect of being repatriated to their home countries. Delil Souleiman
Politics

Inside Al-Hol Camp: IS threat lingers as world stalls repatriation

Al Hol: While our car took us from the city of Hasakah in north-eastern Syria to the Al Hol Camp — the home of thousands of family members of Islamic…

Rustum Mahmud 28 June , 2023
Syrian Kurdish Asayish security forces stand guard outside a house during a raid against suspected Islamic State group fighters in Raqa, the jihadist group's former de facto capital in Syria, on January 29, 2023. AFP
Politics

IS will thrive as long as drivers of instability remain in Syria

While the regional normalisation of Bashar al-Assad’s regime continues apace, media coverage of events has generally presented developments as…

Charles Lister 28 June , 2023
Multiple reconstruction projects underway across the city are being funded by the UN, EU, US, but the UN estimated it could take 10 years to clear Mosul of landmines and corpses lie under many streets. Al Majalla_Shelly Kittleson
Politics

Mosul on the mend six years after IS fall

Mosul: It’s a sweltering Friday in this city of well over a million people, while thousands of former residents remain displaced elsewhere and unable…

Shelly Kittleson 28 June , 2023
Opinion

IS extortion operations in full swing in Syria's northeast

Farmers in north-east Syria find themselves trapped once again in a web of alarming threats, where the choices are limited to making payments or…

Haid Haid 28 June , 2023
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A US Navy sailor directs a Eurocopter AS-332 Super Puma helicopter on the flight deck of Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, which is supporting US military operations in the war with Iran on 16 August 2026. US. Navy/REUTERS
Politics

US troops leave Iraq and Syria, but double down in the region

30, Sep 2026

Why 30 September should be understood less as a US exit from the Middle East than as the end of a particular model of American intervention

Caroline Rose
Eduardo Ramón
Documents & Memoirs

Exclusive interview with the man who caught Israeli spy Eli Cohen

30, Sep 2026

Ibrahim Hamidi spent years following the story of Mossad's 'spy in Damascus ', but some secrets remained untold. He then learned that the man who could answer them was still alive

Ibrahim Hamidi
Moroccan Foreign Minister Bourita & Israeli Foreign Minister Sa'ar agreed to advance their
relationship on security, trade, and regional integration on 16 September 2026. @USAmbUN/X
Politics

Morocco expands ties with Israel: why now?

28, Sep 2026

After months of behind‑the‑scenes talks, Rabat and Tel Aviv are deepening ties under a new phase of the existing Abraham Accords, with Western Sahara being dangled as an incentive

Mohamed Sharki
US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping view portraits of former US presidents at the White House, Washington, DC, on 24 September 2026. Reuters
Politics

US-China summit: did Xi get what he wanted?

29, Sep 2026

Why the Chinese president's visit to Washington could be considered a success, despite no big movement on trade, Taiwan, and technology

Charbel Barakat
Soldiers from the Ethiopian National Defence Force chant slogans after completing their training at an officers' training ground 70 kilometres northeast of the city of Gondar, Ethiopia, on 14 September 2021. AFP
Politics

Turmoil in Tigray: the view from Ethiopia's neighbours

30, Sep 2026

While many would like to see Addis Ababa distracted, they also worry about a refugee spillover should a civil war break out. It might be a case of 'be careful what you wish for'

Sergey Eledinov

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