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No friends needed: US National Security Strategy severs the past

Those seeking to understand the new direction in international politics and in the Middle East could do worse than read the 2025 United States…

Houssam Itani 16 December , 2025
US forces patrol oil fields near Syria's north-east in the Qahtaniyah countryside of Hasakeh province on 3 September 2024. Delil Souleiman/AFP
Politics

The Palmyra attack and what it means for US-Syria cooperation

In the summer of 2015, Islamic State terrorists overran the ancient central Syrian city of Palmyra, looting and bulldozing its treasures and…

Subhi Franjieh 16 December , 2025
The US Constitution vests Congress with the exclusive power "to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises". AFP
Business & Economy

The fate of more than just Trump’s tariffs will be decided in 2026

The fate of US President Donald Trump’s trade tariffs and the international disputes they ignite is now in the hands of the United States Supreme…

Toufic Chanbour 16 December , 2025
Israeli Paratroopers' Brigade members operate in a location given as the
Syrian border, in this handout picture
released on 13 December 2024. Israel Defence Forces
Politics

When it comes to Syria, Israel prefers coercion to conversation

There are few areas in which the United States and Israel genuinely diverge, but one of them—somewhat unexpectedly—is Syria after the fall of former…

Michael Horowitz 16 December , 2025
Al Majalla’s Book Watch
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Al Majalla’s Book Watch

The Arab world has a vibrant and rich literary scene. Al Majalla picks out some choice titles in our fortnightly round-up of the latest Arabic books,…

Khodr Al Agha 16 December , 2025
The global energy mix at a turning point
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The global energy mix at a turning point

The world’s energy system is in the midst of a rapid structural shift, with rising demand being met increasingly by low-carbon sources even as all…

Al Majalla - London 16 December , 2025
Recruits of the German Armed Forces Bundeswehr are sworn in on 4 September 2025 in front of North Rhine-Westphalia's state parliament in Duesseldorf, western Germany. AFP
Politics

Voluntary, for now: National Service is returning to Europe

Within a few days of each other, France and Germany have moved to revive National Service in the face of Russia’s growing military threat. In late…

Christopher Phillips 15 December , 2025
Brushing aside international law when it comes to Venezuela Fares Garabet
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Brushing aside international law when it comes to Venezuela

Fares Garabet 15 December , 2025
Opinion

US national security strategy ditches the role of world’s policeman

US President Donald Trump’s foreign policy can no longer be dismissed as chaos or personal improvisation. Rather, it is a conscious effort to…

Ibrahim Hamidi 15 December , 2025
Award-winning playwright and theatre director Helena Tornero
Culture & Social Affairs

Helena Tornero: the playwright bridging worlds through theatre 

A prominent voice in contemporary Spanish and Catalan theatre, Helena Tornero has built a rich career uniting artistic creativity and human…

Mohammed Al-Bittari 15 December , 2025
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Leaders of SCO member states, including Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian—ahead of a summit session in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, on 1 September 2026. Sputnik/Reuters
Business & Economy

SCO summit: a Eurasia that no longer seeks US permission

03 September 2026

In Bishkek, a loose Eurasian gathering of illiberal nations inched closer to a functioning post-dollar regional economic bloc

Shirley Ze Yu
Sara Padovan
Politics

Donald Trump and the new Latin American right

04 September 2026

Across Central and South America, a raft of right-wingers borrow from each other's playbooks and ride on the US president's coattails to win elections and power. Is it ideology or practicality?

Stefanie Butendieck Hijerra
Al Majalla
Science & Technology

Fighting cancer with cancer: new vaccine raises hope

02 September 2026

In what could be a game-changer, Moderna and Merck announced the first-ever positive results from a Phase III trial to combat melanoma

Mohammed Mansour
Al Majalla
Business & Economy

Hope sells: inroads in cancer treatment excite markets

03 September 2026

For every positive clinical result, pharmaceutical (pharma) companies stand to secure billions of dollars in revenue

Rana Freifer
Lina Jaradat
Culture & Social Affairs

Eyal Weizman dissects the architecture of genocide

28 August 2026

In his new book, the British-Israeli academic shows the methodical tactics Israel has used to uproot Palestinians from their homeland since 1948

Hala Al-Naji

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