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‘Children fighting in a park’ with drones and long-range bombers

Any lingering hopes US President Donald Trump may have entertained of bringing the Ukraine war to an early conclusion will have been dispelled by his…

Con Coughlin 06 June , 2025
The 90-day trade truce is seen in Beijing as but a brief pause to recalibrate strategy in a longer-term Cold War-style rivalry. Ewan White
Business & Economy

US–China trade truce is a pause for breath in a new Cold War

After weeks of tit-for-tat tariff escalation that sent shockwaves through global markets, US and Chinese negotiators emerged from a Geneva conference…

Shirley Ze Yu 06 June , 2025
In October 1936, the French government and the Syrian National Bloc signed the Franco-Syrian Treaty of Alliance, giving independence to Syria. Two months earlier, a Zionist delegation was given short shrift by the Bloc. Getty Images
Documents & Memoirs

‘You may leave’: a 1936 meeting between Syrian and Zionist leaders

In early March 1936, a delegation from the National Bloc party travelled to Paris to negotiate the future of Syria. A coalition of parties hostile to…

Sami Moubayed 06 June , 2025
Lady Evelyn Cobbold, a Scottish aristocrat who converted to Islam and performed the Hajj in 1933, becoming the first British Muslim woman to do so. Getty Images
Culture & Social Affairs

The Orientalists who entered Mecca in disguise

Mecca, this sacred city that draws the hearts of Muslims from every corner of the globe, where souls yearn to visit the House of God and…

Abdullah Al-Rashid 06 June , 2025
Arms outstretched where once artillery did the talking Fares Garabet
Cartoons

Arms outstretched where once artillery did the talking

Fares Garabet 05 June , 2025
Opinion

Hezbollah bristles as Lebanon’s new PM declares the obvious

The late Secretary-General of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, was never accused of lacking clarity when it came to weapons and the organisation’s right…

Alia Mansour 05 June , 2025
Syria's oil and gas reserves could fire an economic recovery but investment is needed. Al Majalla
Business & Economy

Syria’s oil and natural gas fields offer opportunities for investors

Syria has a wealth of resources and related industries, such as agriculture. In the 1950s, the country produced vast quantities of wheat—both hard…

Hussein al-Sharaa 05 June , 2025
A Bell OH-58 Kiowa helicopter flies by a military drone in US military exercises with European states on 4 June 2025. Louisa Gouliamaki/Reuters
Politics

Putin and Trump prompt Europe to scale up defence spending

With Europe experiencing its largest conflict since the Second World War in Ukraine, it is no surprise that European governments are suddenly…

Con Coughlin 05 June , 2025
Steve Witkoff's proposal (in Arabic) for a 60-day ceasefire.
Documents & Memoirs

Full text of Witkoff’s US Gaza ceasefire deal, plus Hamas response

A proposed framework for Israel and Hamas to implement a 60-day ceasefire with the support of US President Donald Trump, as well as Egypt and Qatar,…

Al Majalla - London 04 June , 2025

Protests, floods, prayers for rainfall, and the King of the Sea

Raul Arboleda/AFP
Raul Arboleda/AFP

A demonstrator faces water cannon by riot police during clashes after a protest demanding social reforms outside the National University in Bogota, Colombia.

Gustavo Rodas/AFP
Gustavo Rodas/AFP

Indigenous Maya Mam women in Guatemala offer flowers at a 'prayer for rainfall' ceremony at the Chicabal Lagoon, formed in the crater of an extinct volcano and considered by Mayan people as a sacred place.

Patrick Meinhardt/AFP
Patrick Meinhardt/AFP

The Saacuur (C), the 'King of the Sea,' who is a spiritual figure in the Serer ethnic group, during his crowning ceremony in Joal-Fadiouth, Senegal.

Chaideer Mayhuddin/AFP
Chaideer Mayhuddin/AFP

Palm oil seeds at a plantation in Meulaboh on the west coast of Aceh province, Indonesia.

Qassem al-Kaabi/AFP
Qassem al-Kaabi/AFP

Fish float on the surface of the water during a mass die-off at the Ibn Najm marsh, about 25km northeast of Najaf in Iraq.

John Wessels/AFP
John Wessels/AFP

Handprints on the wall of a school that was abandoned following attacks by Israeli settlers in the Bedouin village of Khirbet Zanuta in the occupied West Bank.

Biju Boro/AFP
Biju Boro/AFP

Villagers cross flood waters after heavy rains in Kampur at Nagaon district, in India's north-eastern state of Assam.

AFP
AFP

Worshippers pray around the Kaaba, Islam's holiest shrine, at the Grand Mosque in the holy city of Mecca ahead of the annual Hajj pilgrimage.

Jorge Bernal/AFP
Jorge Bernal/AFP

Andes villagers who support Bolivian presidential candidate Andronico Rodriguez march in La Paz against rising prices for basic goods and shortages of fuel.

Delil Souleiman/AFP
Delil Souleiman/AFP

A shepherd fills up a water tank for his flock of sheep in a drought-affected field on the outskirts of Qamishli, northern Syria.

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Politics

As Sharaa steps into the White House, Syria steps into the US orbit

09 November 2025

In what could be a historic turning point in US-Syria relations, the new government in Damascus will likely join the international coalition against the Islamic State (IS)

Subhi Franjieh
Sara Padovan
Politics

Is support for Israel becoming toxic at the ballot box? 

11 November 2025

As Americans rethink the moral—and strategic—calculus of US support for Israel, politicians are scrambling to keep pace

Alfred J. Naddaff
Axel Rangel Garcia
Politics

Barbara Leaf on being the first US official to meet Ahmed Sharaa

10 November 2025

On Monday, the Syrian president shook hands with Trump at the White House. Speaking to Al Majalla, a former State Department official explains why this is a moment she could have never imagined.

Ibrahim Hamidi
AFP-Reuters-Eduardo Ramon
Politics

Zohran Mamdani becomes first Muslim mayor of New York

04 November 2025

The 34-year-old socialist's win is a seismic development, proving that tax rises for the rich to fund social programmes, and unwavering advocacy for Palestinian rights, are politically viable stances

Tarek Rashed
Ewan White
Politics

How Trump reshaped the world

03 November 2025

Al Majalla examines key developments in the US and across the globe less than a year into Trump's second presidential term

Al Majalla - London

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