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PKK guerrillas scan for firing positions as they conduct military exercises in the mountains of northern Iraq's Kurdish autonomous region, 18 November 2006. DAVID FURST / AFP
Politics

What next after historic PKK decision to disband?

The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group, which has been locked in bloody conflict with Türkiye for more than four decades, made a…

Omer Onhon 11 May , 2025
Kashmiri men react after the ceasefire announcement between India and Pakistan, in Srinagar May 10, 2025. REUTERS/Sharafat Ali
Politics

A nerve-wracking ceasefire holds between India and Pakistan—for now

Just as India's showdown with Pakistan was spiralling out of control, it seems to be calming down. After four days of escalating clashes, culminating…

The Economist 11 May , 2025
Trump's 'big' agenda in Saudi Arabia Al Majalla
Business & Economy

Trump's 'big' agenda in Saudi Arabia

US President Donald Trump is due to visit Saudi Arabia on 13 May, marking a significant moment in the historic partnership between the two countries…

Maher Chmaytelli 11 May , 2025
Late Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser and Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi arrive together at the Arab Summit venue in Rabat on December 23, 1969. AFP
Documents & Memoirs

A 50-year-old recording sheds light on Egypt's position toward Israel today

A decades-old audio recording made at a pivotal moment in the history of the Middle East has recently come to light, and it has a direct bearing on…

Amr Emam 11 May , 2025
Brig. Gen. Mohammed al-Jassim and some of his officers in Sheikh al-Hadid in the Afrin district of northern Syria. April 13, 2025. Shelly Kittleson
Politics

Much-maligned Syrian commander rebuts massacre claims

Afrin, Syria: “Our men didn’t even enter Jableh,” claimed Brigadier General Mohammed al-Jassim during an extensive interview with Al Majalla on his…

Shelly Kittleson 10 May , 2025
Chairs and tables are‬‭ scattered at the site of a suspected militant‬ attack on tourists in Baisaran near Pahalgam in south Kashmir's Anantnag district,‬ on April 24, 2025. Sajjad HUSSAIN / AFP
Politics

How India and Pakistan can pull back from the brink

India and Pakistan are once again at each other’s throats. Following a terrorist attack in Indian-administered Kashmir on 22 April, New Delhi…

Ravi Agrawal 10 May , 2025
Opinion

Trading places: China and the US swap positions on free trade

It is one of history’s great ironies. Washington has become an opponent of the global free trade system it once led, turning to tariffs and…

Khaled Kassar 10 May , 2025
22-year-old art degree graduate Karim Naamani Ibrahim Totanji
Culture & Social Affairs

Cinematheque Beirut gives Lebanon’s film community a space to thrive

A 22-year-old art degree graduate is immersed in a sea of finely rolled paper cylinders. They know the addresses, classifications, and precise…

Ibrahim Tutunji 10 May , 2025
Newly elected Pope Leo XIV, Robert Prevost, from the main central loggia balcony of St. Peter's Basilica for the first time, after the cardinals ended the conclave, in the Vatican, on May 8, 2025. Alberto PIZZOLI / AFP
Profiles

Leo XIV: Habemus Papam, we have a pope!

The election of Robert Prevost as the new head of the Catholic Church, where he has decided to take the name Pope Leo XIV, is likely to herald a new…

Con Coughlin 09 May , 2025
US-Houthi ceasefire fuels Israeli fears of an Iran deal Lina Jaradat
Politics

US-Houthi ceasefire fuels Israeli fears of an Iran deal

Almost a decade ago, as I visited an embassy in Israel to brief diplomats on the security situation in the Middle East, my colleague and I were asked…

Michael Horowitz 08 May , 2025
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Lina Jaradat
Politics

Israel's Olive War aims to uproot more than just trees

09 November 2025

The olive tree is no longer just a source of sustenance for West Bank Palestinians, but a silent witness to their profound struggle between permanence and erasure

Mohammed Najib
This handout photograph released by the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) on 10 November 2025, shows US President Donald Trump (L) shaking hands with Syria's President Ahmed al-Sharaa at the White House in Washington DC. SANA / AFP
Politics

Syria-US rapprochement sees surge in cooperation

13 November 2025

Since Trump began lifting sanctions in May, no time has been wasted. US investment delegations have been flocking to Damascus, and security cooperation has already started.

Charles Lister
Al Majalla
Politics

Can Trump make peace or just ceasefires?

12 November 2025

The US president hasn't invested enough political capital in the painstaking details of peacemaking. Instead, he has focused on short-term truces he can boast about in his quest for a Nobel prize.

Christopher Phillips
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
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

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