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US President Donald Trump stands next to NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer as NATO leaders pose for a group photo at a NATO summit in The Hague, Netherlands, on June 25, 2025. REUTERS/Claudia Greco
Politics

Europe's uphill battle to keep Trump invested in NATO

Of all the challenges US President Donald Trump has presented to the established world order since returning to the White House in January, the…

Con Coughlin 20 October , 2025
Five lessons for Israel after October 7
Politics

Five lessons for Israel after October 7

The ceasefire agreement that US President Donald Trump clinched just days after the two-year mark of the Gaza war has ostensibly put an end to…

Michael Harari 20 October , 2025
Israel's loose understanding of a ceasefire
Cartoons

Israel's loose understanding of a ceasefire

Fares Garabet 20 October , 2025
Opinion

Syria needs economic support, but must also do its part

As Syria emerges from more than a decade of war, its government is making clear that recovery will move forward with or without the support of…

Haid Haid 19 October , 2025
In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Russia's President Vladimir Putin attends the Valdai Discussion Club meeting in Sochi on October 2, 2025. Mikhail METZEL / AFP
Politics

After Valdai: Putin moves from ideology to action

Earlier this month, President Vladimir Putin took to the stage at the annual meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club in Sochi, Russia,…

Sergey Eledinov 19 October , 2025
Jared Kushner: Trump's influential son-in-law who helped clinch the Gaza truce Eduardo Ramon
Profiles

Jared Kushner: Trump's influential son-in-law who helped clinch the Gaza truce

When details of US President Donald Trump’s 20-point peace plan for Gaza were announced, it soon emerged that his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, had…

Con Coughlin 19 October , 2025
The fight for resources could determine who 'wins' the war in Sudan Peter Reynolds
Business & Economy

The fight for resources could determine who 'wins' the war in Sudan

With no end in sight to Sudan’s civil war between its army and a breakaway paramilitary group, and efforts to facilitate peace talks frustrated,…

Sharif Mohammad 19 October , 2025
Opinion

Trump's 'grand peace' doesn't tackle root causes

These days, the region teams with lofty declarations. Peace, we are told, is on the horizon, heralding a “golden” future for the Middle East…

Houssam Itani 18 October , 2025
Opinion

The pros and cons of a multipolar world

A multipolar world makes it harder to end conflictsBy: Con CoughlinWith the world facing an ever-increasing number of conflicts, the deepening…

Al Majalla - London 18 October , 2025
'Send them back!': why Europe’s populists are repackaging old ideas Gregori Saavedra
Politics

'Send them back!': why Europe’s populists are repackaging old ideas

Nigel Farage, the leader of the UK’s populist Reform UK party, announced in late August that, should he win the next UK election, he would deport up…

Christopher Phillips 18 October , 2025
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Business & Economy

The tiny waterway that put the global economy into a chokehold

18 April 2026

Disruption in the Hormuz can have major implications for global trade, but it also creates opportunities for smaller nations like Iran to become global political players

Steve Hewitt
Pete Reynolds
Politics

Glimpses of Bush's Iraq debacle appear in Trump's Iran war

15 April 2026

The Iraq war was viewed as disastrous in retrospect, while the Iran war was unpopular from the get-go. Al Majalla highlights the similarities and differences between the two.

Robert Ford
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Business & Economy

The US plan to turn Syria into an oil transit hub

16 April 2026

Pipelines have a chequered history in the Middle East, but the closure of the Strait of Hormuz has led US Tom Barrack to conclude that a new route through Syria could solve some problems.

Al Majalla - London
An Iranian woman flashes the V-sign as she takes part in a rally to pay tribute to women killed during war, in Tehran on 17 April 2026. AFP
Politics

Has Iran's ideology actually hardened?

16 April 2026

The change in tone and presentation of policy isn't a fundamental redirection, but rather the consolidation of a system under pressure

Alex Vatanka
Egyptian director Daoud Abdel Sayed holds two awards during the opening ceremony of the Alexandria Film Festival for Mediterranean Countries in the Egyptian port city of Alexandria, late on 14 September 2010. AMR AHMAD / AFP
Culture & Social Affairs

Daoud Abdel Sayed and the cinema of quiet rebellion

16 April 2026

Throughout his career, the renowned Egyptian film director challenged authority, rejected easy answers, and remained rooted in lived experience

Hazem Massoud

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