From Africa to the Arctic, certain metals and minerals are so highly sought after for today's strategic industries that countries will go to war over them. What are they? Al Majalla digs deeper.
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by Mark Blyth and Simon Tilford
In February 2016, the Organization for…
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by Nadia Turki
In an interview with Majalla, the former Managing Director of World Bank Group…
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by James Yan
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[caption id="attachment_55254335" align="aligncenter" width="900"] Russian President Vladimir Putin hunts fish underwater in the remote Tuva region in southern Siberia. The picture taken between…
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Storytelling in a genocide in which there has been no formal education for two years is no luxury. Rather, it is an attempt to revive the imaginations of a generation robbed of their childhood.
Israel has made clear its objection to Turkish military bases in Syria. Could a recently signed MOU between Ankara and Damascus to boost security cooperation threaten Türkiye's good ties with the US?
In the second instalment of a two-part series, Al Majalla looks at how Saudi Arabia moved from a horizontal to a vertical development model, powered by an ambitious package of reforms
The moves by France, the UK and other Western states appear to be more about appeasing domestic critics with symbolic gestures rather than a genuine attempt to change Israel's behaviour