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Europe swarms with drone activity
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Europe swarms with drone activity

Fares Garabet 12 October , 2025
A municipal worker fixes a sign in Sharm el-Sheikh, as the Egyptian resort town gets ready to host a US-brokered Gaza peace summit, on October 12, 2025. Khaled DESOUKI / AFP
Politics

Gaza ceasefire takes off, but expect turbulence ahead

US President Donald Trump departs for the Middle East on Sunday, 12 October, his second trip to the region in five months—and what a difference five…

Brian Katulis 12 October , 2025
Khaled al-Anani: the first Arab head of UNESCO Axel Rangel Garcia
Profiles

Khaled al-Anani: the first Arab head of UNESCO

For the boy who grew up taking family picnics between the paws of Egypt’s Great Sphinx, it is fitting that his ascension to head the United Nations…

Amr Emam 12 October , 2025
100 years on, television confronts the digital age Al Majalla
Science & Technology

100 years on, television confronts the digital age

A century ago, on 2 October 1925, Scottish inventor John Logie Baird transmitted the first televised image using a mechanical prototype. It was of a…

Marco Mossad 12 October , 2025
A protester highlights British companies’ involvement in manufacturing F-35 fighter jets used in Gaza, demanding an arms embargo on Israel, outside the offices of Lockheed Martin, in Havant, Britain, October 8, 2025. REUTERS/Toby Melville
Business & Economy

Israel can’t survive autarky

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently said his country should reduce its dependence on trade with other countries, as the state faces a…

Giovanni Legorano 12 October , 2025
Opinion

Syria’s new parliament raises old questions

On 5 October, Syria marked what transitional president Ahmed al-Sharaa described as a “historic moment”: the country’s first parliamentary elections…

Haid Haid 11 October , 2025
Patience wears thin for Arabs from Syria's SDF areas Shelly Kittleson
Politics

Patience wears thin for Arabs from Syria's SDF areas

Deir ez-Zor: “That was where military security would shoot at us,” a young man in uniform told Al Majalla on a ride through some of the parts of this…

Shelly Kittleson 11 October , 2025
Iraqi painter and sculptor Dia al-Azzawi
Culture & Social Affairs

Dia Azzawi’s latest murals mourn the ruin of Arab cities

Standing inside Galerie Saleh Barakat in Beirut, it is difficult not to feel dizzy before the overwhelming mixture of human and material fragments…

Mohamed abi Samra 11 October , 2025
Palestinians, who were displaced to the southern part of Gaza at Israel's order during the war, make their way along a road as they return to the north after a ceasefire went into effect on October 10, 2025. REUTERS/Mahmoud Issa
Politics

Six reasons why a Gaza ceasefire was finally reached

As Trump announced that Hamas and Israel had signed off on the first phase of his “Peace Plan”, the region is holding its breath, wondering whether…

Michael Horowitz 10 October , 2025
A deal being signed at the recently held  Cultural Investment Conference in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on September 30, 2025. SPA
Business & Economy

Saudi Arabia ramps up investment in culture

Over the past seven years, Saudi Arabia has transformed its approach to policy across all sectors, from trade and tourism to culture and sports, with…

Turki Harbi 10 October , 2025
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A plume of smoke rises following a reported explosion in Tehran on 28 February 2026 as US and Israeli attacks on the country commence. ATTA KENARE / AFP
Politics

US-Israel attack Iran but end goal remains unclear

27 February 2026

Military strategists have long warned that war should be waged only if those waging it know what they want to achieve. Herein lies a problem: Washington's war aims in Iran are incoherent.

Futoshi Matsumoto
Al Majalla
Politics

Iran’s strategy for war with the US

25 February 2026

Tehran isn't likely to easily fold if/when Trump attacks. This means that the longer a military confrontation drags out, the more untenable Washington's position becomes.

Bilal Saab
Pete Reynolds
Politics

Ukraine: the war that shook the world

23 February 2026

The conflict has forced Russia to scale back its global footprint and NATO to boost its defence spending. Meanwhile, China and Middle powers have emerged as key beneficiaries.

Christopher Phillips
AFP / Al Majalla
Science & Technology

Renewables on track to redefine global energy

23 February 2026

Natural resources like solar, wind, and water are set to provide 36% of global electricity production this year. Even for sceptics like Donald Trump, the trends are unmistakable.

Mohammed Mansour
Gregori Saavedra
Politics

Was Jeffrey Epstein a spy?

24 February 2026

Some point to his possible links to Mossad through his associate Ghislaine Maxwell, whose father was a known Israeli spy, and assert that he blackmailed powerful figures to exert influence

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