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How US Sanctions are Impacting Hezbollah
Politics

How US Sanctions are Impacting Hezbollah

Sanctions that the United States re-imposed on Iran have been more effective than expected, according to top US administration officials. These…

Hanin Ghaddar 12 October , 2018
Gas flare on an oil production platform in the Soroush oil fields is seen alongside an Iranian flag in the Gulf July 25, 2005. (Reuters)
Business & Economy

While Iran Oil Exports Plummet, the U.S. Presses on with Sanctions

The Iranian government appeared to take heart on Tuesday when Nikki Haley, the outspoken U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, announced that she…

Joseph Braude 12 October , 2018
Protester waves the 'Estelada' Catalan independentist flag during a demonstration by pro-Catalan independence supporters calling for the release of jailed separatist leaders on November 12, 2017, in Brussels.  (Getty)
Politics

The Catalan Crisis, One Year Later

It was a year ago this month that Catalans voted to break away from Spain and create the Republic of Catalonia. Although 90 percent of the Catalan…

Omar G. Encarnación 12 October , 2018

October 4

October 4

A child sleeps in a cart during the traditional costume and riflemen parade on the second day of the 185th Oktoberfest beer festival on September 23, 2018 in Munich, southern Germany. - The world's biggest beer festival runs until October 7, 2018. (Getty)

October 4

Venezuelans migrants living in Medellin sleep as they wait to attend the second Job Fair for Venezuelans in Colombia, on September 27, 2018. - According to the organizers they have received over 2,000 applications for the 1,100 job vacancies available. (Getty)

October 4

A snake keeper is seen showing off a python at an agriculture fair on September 25, 2018 in Kinshasa, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Getty)

October 4

A Congolese man carries a sack in a port along the Congo River on September 25, 2018 in Kinshasa. (Getty)

October 4

Birds sit in their cages during a bird-singing competition in Thailand's southern province of Narathiwat on September 25, 2018. (Getty)

October 4

A survivor walks under a car struck on a building in Palu, Indonesia's Central Sulawesi on October 1, 2018, after an earthquake and tsunami hit the area on September 28. (Getty)

What Clausewitz Can Teach Us About Cyberwar
Politics

What Clausewitz Can Teach Us About Cyberwar

A half century ago, two computers at UCLA and Stanford were linked together into the first computer network. It was called ARPANET, after the…

P. W. Singer and Emerson T. Brooking 05 October , 2018
Learning to Love Kim's Bomb
Politics

Learning to Love Kim's Bomb

Upon returning from the Singapore summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in June, U.S. President Donald Trump declared the North Korea problem …

Joshua Shifrinson 05 October , 2018
USMCA Trade Deal
Business & Economy

USMCA Trade Deal

In an eleventh-hour breakthrough that may have saved the North American Free Trade Agreement, the Trump administration and top Canadian officials…

Don Lee 05 October , 2018
American Sovereignty Is Safe From the UN
Politics

American Sovereignty Is Safe From the UN

The United States has less reason to worry about its sovereignty than any other country in the world. No other country enjoys as much freedom from…

Bruce Jones 05 October , 2018
How Trump’s Policies Are Helping China
Politics

How Trump’s Policies Are Helping China

For the first year of Donald Trump’s presidency, most Western commentators on U.S.-Chinese relations saw the Trump administration’s approach…

 Yadong Liu 05 October , 2018
How Russia and China Undermine Democracy
Politics

How Russia and China Undermine Democracy

Russian and Chinese actions are converging to challenge the U.S.-led global order. Last month, China joined Russia in conducting the latter’s largest…

Andrea Kendall-Taylor and David Shullman 05 October , 2018
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How a tiny waterway 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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