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This aerial view shows residents waving Somaliland flags as they gather to celebrate Israel's announcement recognising Somaliland's statehood in downtown Hargeisa, on 26 December 2025. Farhan Aleli / AFP
Politics

Israel scores strategic win with Somaliland deal, but it comes with risk

In a move that breaks more than three decades of diplomatic impasse, Israel has officially recognised Somaliland as an independent and sovereign…

Omar Harkous 27 December , 2025
From Palestine to AI: cultural trends that swept 2025 Sara Padovan
Culture & Social Affairs

From Palestine to AI: cultural trends that swept 2025

In 2025, Gaza was a major issue in global culture, a moral and artistic reference lens through which art and ethical boundaries were re-examined,…

Shadi Alaa Aldin 27 December , 2025
People stand outside the Justice Palace after first trial of more than a dozen suspects linked to massacres that left hundreds dead in Syria's Alawite coastal heartland earlier this year, in Aleppo on 18 November 2025. BAKR ALKASEM / AFP
Politics

Fresh UK sanctions on Syria send a message

As Syrians were celebrating the full repeal of the Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act, the United Kingdom announced a new round of sanctions—an…

Haid Haid 27 December , 2025
The NSS reflects the growing utility of technology shutterstock
Science & Technology

The NSS reflects the growing utility of technology

On 4 December 2025, the United States unveiled its National Security Strategy (NSS), a guiding framework covering foreign policy, economics, defence,…

Marco Mossad 27 December , 2025
Opinion

Why might-is-right mentalities prevail in our region

Can a meaningful connection be drawn, without artifice or contrivance, between the rising tensions in Yemen among factions that claim alignment…

Houssam Itani 26 December , 2025
How Israel's war on Gaza helped the Arab world rediscover its agency Lina Jaradat
Politics

How Israel's war on Gaza helped the Arab world rediscover its agency

The Gaza war has shattered illusions of regional stability and exposed the limits of Israeli and American dominance, but most importantly, it has…

Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy 26 December , 2025
Diversification and growth: how Gulf economies fared in 2025 AFP-Eduardo Ramon
Business & Economy

Diversification and growth: how Gulf economies fared in 2025

The Gulf states navigated a challenging economic landscape in 2025 while pressing ahead with diversification efforts. Although they continued to rely…

Amer Ziab Al-Tamimi 26 December , 2025
Conservative political commentator and podcast host Tucker Carlson speaks at Turning Point's annual AmericaFest conference, in remembrance of late right-wing political activist Charlie Kirk, in Phoenix, Arizona, on 18 December 2025. OLIVIER TOURON / AFP
Politics

Israel is bleeding support on the US Christian right

Amid growing disgust within both the Republican and Democratic parties over Israel’s actions in Gaza, pro-Israel forces have gone into overdrive to…

Tarek Rashed 25 December , 2025
An aerial view of the dome of the Palace of Fine Arts Museum in Mexico City, on 22 May 2024. AFP / Rodrigo Oropeza
Culture & Social Affairs

Mexico City: where the ordinary and extraordinary coexist in chaotic harmony

I do not like taking photographs, precisely for what they are—namely, images. They are deceptive imprints of a time that has passed, the severing of…

Samer Abou Hawwach 25 December , 2025
Opinion

A revised Ukraine peace plan awaits Putin's response

With Russia showing no let-up in its military offensive against Ukraine, US President Donald Trump’s offer of a "platinum" security guarantee for…

Con Coughlin 25 December , 2025
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Al-Jawf: the key to defeating the Houthis

05, Nov 2026

The battle for this strategically important and resource-rich province tests the Yemeni army's ability to tilt the military balance in its favour

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Saudi Arabia's Defence Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman Al-Saud, Pakistan's army chief General Syed Asim Munir, and Turkey's intelligence chief Ibrahim Kalin in Tehran on 26 October 2026. IRANIAN PRESIDENCY / AFP
Politics

Pakistan’s balancing act in a fragmenting world

07, Nov 2026

Staying friends with the Turks, Chinese, Russians, Americans, Europeans, Iranians and Saudis simultaneously is a big ask for Islamabad's diplomats, but somehow they are managing it

Kaswar Klasra
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Can the Democrats prevent a new round of war with Iran?

05, Nov 2026

Despite the war's unpopularity, Trump seems determined to press on until he can claim a decisive victory, whether by diplomacy, force, or a combination of the two

Aqeel Abbas
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Profiles

Abdul El-Sayed: the progressive Michigander who beat the pro-Israel lobby

07, Aug 2026

The Egyptian-American epidemiologist became the first Muslim senator in US history, despite $70mn spent to defeat him in the Democratic primary

Tarek Rashed
French author Philippe Djianada looks out from a window at the Drouant restaurant in Paris, following his win of the French Goncourt literary prize for his novel "The Unknown Woman of Quai de Javel," on 3 November 2026. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann
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A novel about a murder in Paris wins the 2026 Goncourt

06, Nov 2026

French novelist Philippe Jaenada's novel 'The Unknown Woman of Quai de Javel' wins big, while the Prix Renaudot goes to François-Henri Désérable for his novel about an unlikely wine expert

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