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This photo taken on June 4, 2019 shows a man walking past a screen showing images of China's President Xi Jinping in Kashgar in China's northwest Xinjiang region. (Getty)
Politics

China’s Rights Abuses in Xinjiang Could Provoke a Global Terrorist Backlash

Inmid-November 2019, The New York Times published more than 400 pages of leaked internal documents from the authorities in theXinjiang Uighur…

Colin P. Clarke 25 January , 2020
A drone photo shows the aerial photo of marketplace after it was hit by Syrian regime and Russian airstrikes in central Idlib, Syria on January 15, 2020. (Getty)
Politics

Bashar al-Assad’s Hollow Victory

PresidentBashar al-Assad’sregime inSyriahas now endured through nearly nine years of civil conflict. The question for those invested in Syria’s…

Lina Khatib 25 January , 2020
Supporters of Shiite Hezbollah movement react with clenched fists as they watch a speech by the movement's leader Hasan Nasrallah, transmitted on a large screen, in the Lebanese capital Beirut's southern suburbs on January 5, 2020. (Getty)
Politics

Hezbollah Has Prepared for This Moment for Decades

“What is just retribution?” So askedHezbollahleaderHassan Nasrallahin a speech onJanuary 5, two days afterthe United Statesassassinated Iranian Quds…

Brian Katz 25 January , 2020
Indian children work nearby to their parents at a construction project in front of the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium on January 30, 2010 in New Delhi, India. (Getty)
Business & Economy

As the World’s Ultra-Rich Gather at Davos, the Debate Over Economic Inequality Rages On

This week the world’s richest and most powerful people, including 119 billionaires with a collective worth of $500 billion, ascended to the small…

Yasmine El Geressi 25 January , 2020
World leaders listen to a speech by Israel's President Reuven Rivlin during the Fifth World Holocaust Forum on January 23, 2020 in Jerusalem, Israel. (Getty)
Politics

Understanding the Holocaust in its Totality

Their names and numbers were Ismail (R9954) and Nasreddin (R9955), Mohammed (R9959) and Hassan (R9965). They were Soviet prisoners of war, captured…

Robert Satloff   25 January , 2020
Iranians shout slogans against the government after a vigil held for the victims of the airplane of Ukrainian International Airlines that crashed near Imam Khomeini Airport turned into an anti-government protest outside Amirkabir University in Tehran, Iran on January 11, 2020. (Getty)
Politics

Iran’s Leadership Faces a Heightened Crisis of Legitimacy

Iranian-Western relations have returned to their normal rhythm of a tightening ring of Western economic pressure, with new sanctions targeting IRGC…

Joseph Braude 25 January , 2020
Of Cannibals (Part One)
Culture & Social Affairs

Of Cannibals (Part One)

The ginger-haired Jesus, by Paul Gauguin. As a painter, especially in his early years, Gauguin could be…

Bryn Haworth 25 January , 2020
Politics

Understanding the Holocaust in its Totality

Their names and numbers were Ismail (R9954) and Nasreddin (R9955), Mohammed (R9959) and Hassan (R9965). They were Soviet prisoners of war, captured…

Robert Satloff   25 January , 2020

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A Syrian kid stands in mud near the tents at 90 tents capacity of Little Fida Camp hosting Syrian families who have been forced to displace due to the attacks carried out by Assad regime and Russia, trying to live under harsh winter conditions in Idlib, Syria on January 07, 2020. (Getty)

January 17

Lightning strikes as a column of ash surrounds the crater of Taal Volcano as it erupts on January 12, 2020 as seen from Tagaytay city, Cavite province, Philippine. (Getty)

January 17

Al-Fursan, the United Arab Emirates Air Force display team, paints the sky with MB339 aircrafts during the Kuwait aviation show in Kuwait City on January 18, 2020.

January 17

rench President Emmanuel Macron meets soldiers as he visits the Orleans Bricy Air Base 123 in Boulay-les-Barres , central France, on January 16, 2020

January 17

A young Ukrainian woman holds the portrait of her mother captured during a rally in front of the presidential office in Kiev, Ukraine, January 16, 2020 as they remind the president of his promise to release all Ukrainians, who have been captured by Russia and pro-Russian activists in eastern Ukraine. (Getty)

January 17

woman holds onto her face mask during a practice session in Melbourne on January 15, 2020, ahead of the Australian Open tennis tournament. (Getty)

Mohamed Sayyed Darwish to Majalla: My Grandfather Was Poisoned By the British Occupational Forces
Politics

Mohamed Sayyed Darwish to Majalla: My Grandfather Was Poisoned By the British Occupational Forces

* Badie' Khayri was his lifelong friend who helped him obtain his Cairo home. * My relationship with my cousins is great, and I had…

Safa Azeb 17 January , 2020
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People shout slogans as they gather after a two-week ceasefire in the Iran war was announced, in Tehran, Iran, 8 April 2026. Majid Asgaripour / Reuters
Politics

US-Iran ceasefire unlikely to hold

07 April 2026

If the ceasefire collapses, China has an interest in getting the two sides back to the table, but it would be a difficult task given Tehran's deep mistrust of the US and Israel.

Xiaotong Yang
Grace Russell
Politics

Gulf states should steer clear of attritional war traps

01 April 2026

The US-Israeli war against Iran aims to draw in Gulf states, but history has shown that entering wars is far easier than exiting them. Prudence is needed now more than ever.

Khairuldeen Al Makhzoomi
Palestinian Foreign Minister Varsen Aghabekian Shahin speaks at a press conference in Ljubljana, Slovenia, on 25 August, 2025. Luka Dakskobler / Getty
Politics

'Israel is exploiting Iran war to kill a Palestinian state'

01 April 2026

PA Foreign Minister Varsen Aghabekian Shahin tells Al Majalla that Israel is taking advantage of the fact that the world is distracted by the US-Iran war to create irreversible facts on the ground

Ahmed Maher
People gather during a celebration called by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) at the Umayyad Square, after the ousting of Syria's Bashar al-Assad, in Damascus, Syria, 20 December, 2024. Reuters / Ammar
Business & Economy

US-Iran war gives Syria's global economic pitch more urgency

01 April 2026

Given the effective closure of the Hormuz Strait and Houthi threats to close off the Red Sea, Syria may emerge as a corridor and conduit to bypass these embattled maritime chokepoints

Charles Lister
Farid al-Madhan Reuters/ Al Majalla
Politics

Farid al-Madhan: Assad's fingerprints were on every picture

31 March 2026

A former army forensics employee who later became known as Caesar tells Al Majalla how he risked his life to expose the torture and killing of countless Syrians in regime prisons

Ibrahim Hamidi

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