Iraq at risk of fragmentation

This week's cover story details how militia influence undermines state institutions, deepens sectarian divisions and creates security vacuums that IS could exploit

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Once is Enough

[caption id="attachment_55226026" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="Amr Moussa"][/caption] Moussa’s fame—he has been sung about by Egyptian pop singer Shaaban Abdel Rahim—places him at the…

Safaa Azab

East meets East

[caption id="attachment_55225988" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="The Sino-Arab business forum is a testament to the developing business relationship between China and the Arab World"][…

Omar H. Rahman

Not So Secret Wars

[escenic_image id="55220965"]What do a clandestine fiber-optic communications network in Beirut, Najaf’s Shamsah Travel and Tourism Agency, and a railway line in western Afghanistan all share?…

Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine

Jihad Jane

[escenic_image id="55220819"]October saw Al-Qaeda once again prove its determination to undermine western security: the “parcel” bomb dispatched by Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP)—the group…

Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine

Deadly Embraces

[escenic_image id="55220808"]Bruce Riedel is a former CIA officer and currently a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Saban Center for Middle East Policy. Riedel was a senior adviser to…

Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine

Iran and the Bomb

[escenic_image id="55219747"]Stephen Walt, world renowned professor of international affairs at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, met with The Majalla to discuss one of the key security…

Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine

The Final Chapters

[escenic_image id="55215286"]Up in Turgali, a smuggler's village on the Turkish-Iranian border, Cüneyt Boz dotes on his packhorse. "Minefields, pasdaran, she's afraid of nothing," he says, stroking…

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