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Syrians celebrate at Umayyad Square in Damascus on December 20, 2024, after the ousting of Syria's Bashar al-Assad on December 8. REUTERS/Ammar Awad
Politics

Are Israel and Türkiye heading for a showdown over Syria?

Türkiye viewed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s downfall as a strategic opening to advance long-standing ambitions in Syria: suppressing Kurdish…

Haid Haid 20 September , 2025
Opinion

West Bank annexation: Israel's answer to Palestine recognition?

Should France and the UK officially recognise the State of Palestine during the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New…

Wahid Abdel Maguid 20 September , 2025
The US Supreme Court AFP
Business & Economy

Trump tariffs await their date with destiny

At the end of August, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington ruled that most of the tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump…

Toufic Chanbour 20 September , 2025
3D printing makes inroads in orthopaedic surgery Sara Padovan
Science & Technology

3D printing makes inroads in orthopaedic surgery

Picture an operating theatre filled with medical equipment and a team of surgeons in utmost concentration. On the table lies a patient with a complex…

Khaled Yousri 20 September , 2025
Opinion

Palestine recognition will not stop Israel's war on Gaza

With Israel showing no sign of ending its military onslaught in Gaza, a plan by several Western governments to formally recognise Palestine as a…

Con Coughlin 19 September , 2025
Syrian President Nureddin al-Atassi at the United Nations on June 6, 1967. Alamy
Documents & Memoirs

Syria's history in the United Nations

On 17 February 1945, a Syrian-British summit was arranged in Cairo by King Farouk and King Abdul-Aziz al-Saud of Saudi Arabia. Syrian President…

Sami Moubayed 19 September , 2025
New book reveals Saudi explorer's impressions of Australia and South America
Culture & Social Affairs

New book reveals Saudi explorer's impressions of Australia and South America

When Saudi sheikh, author, and traveller Mohammed bin Nasser Al-Aboudi died in 2022, he was in his mid-90s and had been garlanded extensively for his…

Abdul Rahman Mazhar Halloush 19 September , 2025
Displaced Palestinians flee northern Gaza on September 18, 2025, due to an Israeli military operation, moving with their belongings to the south after Israeli forces ordered residents of Gaza City to evacuate. REUTERS/Mahmoud Issa
Politics

Palestinians flee Gaza City amid terrifying Israeli invasion

Amidst the ongoing prisoner exchange talks involving Hamas, the Israeli military launched a combined ground and aerial assault on Gaza City just…

Salem Al Rayyes 19 September , 2025
Middle East Quartet envoy Tony Blair (C) waves as he leaves a UN-run school sheltering Palestinians, whose houses were destroyed by Israeli airstrikes during the 2014 war, in Gaza City on February 15, 2015. SUHAIB SALEM / AFP
Politics

Tony Blair's hand in Gaza's 'Day After' raises eyebrows

Donald Trump met with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, at the White House on 27 August. The declared…

Bryn Haworth 18 September , 2025
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) walks among members of the Israeli army at Mount Hermon in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights of Syria, on December 17, 2024. AFP
Politics

Netanyahu’s ‘peace through force’ doctrine hurts Syria talks

Last month, Syrian-Israeli negotiations appeared to edge closer to a breakthrough. Following months of secret talks, Syria’s transitional authorities…

Haid Haid 18 September , 2025
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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
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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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