Building on the ten-day ceasefire announced by US President Donald Trump, time will tell if these talks are a one-off or the beginning of a different path for Lebanon.
US President Donald Trump could lay out his vision for peace between Israel and the Palestinian Authority at a summit at his Camp David residence – home to the historic 1978 peace accords and the…
After developing their peace plan for more than two and a half years, there are now reports that the Trump administration intends to present it in the near future. Presumably, it will wait until…
As Washington’s net of sanctions continues to tighten, Iran has mounted a campaign of naval and diplomatic brinkmanship toward America’s Arab and European allies. Despite these efforts — and a…
On the surface, white supremacists and ISIS recruits would not seem to have much in common. One group embraces a racist, anti-immigrant ideology and is mobilized by fear that a majority of people…
Hezbollah does not seem to be satisfied with the current grip it has on Lebanon. Despite winning the 2008 parliamentary elections and forming a majority government with its allies,…
Though Boris Johnson has achieved his premiership ambitions, his time in office will not be a walk in the park. He is expected to take the UK out of the European Union by October 31, which gives him…
Last Thursday,Beji Caid Essebsi, the president of theRepublic of Tunisia, died in a military hospital at the age of 92. His death fell on a national holiday of particular resonance: Republic Day…
Iran and the West remain locked in a stalemate as the British and Iranian navies continue to hold oil tankers, each carrying the other’s flag. When the UK resisted Iranian demands to accede to a…
by Ali Almandalawi
Born in 1958, Ursula Gertrud von der Leyen spent the first 13 years of her life in Brussels, where her father Ernest Alberchy was one of the first…
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.