While all the effects of this conflict may take time to fully realise, short and medium-term signs expose the limits of US power and see America's rivals benefiting
The world is not getting safer, forthe United Statesor forU.S.interests. Even before the coronavirus pandemic, the 2017 National Defense Strategy described an international environment of increased…
On US President-elect Joe Biden’s lenghthy to do list is a pledge to rejoin the 2015 Iran nuclear deal - the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), - one of the signature, if hotly debated,…
Donald Trumpdidn’t win, and neither did Trumpism. For the world beyondthe United States, these facts are of fundamental importance. Whatever happens in the coming weeks and months, most American…
The votes are in. After a fiercely contested election,Joe Bidenwill be the next president ofthe United States. Because of their distaste for the current president, the president-elect’sinner…
US President Donald Trump will cut his country's military presence in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Pentagon announced this week.Acting defence secretary Christopher Miller said the number of US soldiers…
“We cannot feed our livestock at all,” a member of the farmer’s union in Iran told Majalla. Videos circulating on social media show Iranian farmers taking their dairy cows to the slaughterhouse one…
Despite a series of ongoing legal challenges in certain battleground states, the reality of VicePresident Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 elections has long been settled in the minds of most…
In a surprising, albeit overdue move, the US Department of Treasury sanctioned earlier this month Gebran Bassil – Lebanon’s former foreign minister and the son-in-law of President Michel Aoun - for…
Both in their 40s, Emhoff, divorced, and Harris, single, meton a date arranged in 2013by Harris’s best friend, Chrisette Hudlin, a public relations consultant. The date was set up by…
As the final high-tension hours of voting ticked away on Tuesday, nervous reporters waiting for news of foreign information warfare efforts were left like Vladimir and Estragon by the roadside,…
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
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.
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.