Two months ago today, a coup took place in Niger that delivered yet another blow to France's declining influence in the Sahel. Without US support, Paris has decided to pack up and leave.

An attack on an airport, bombings in the mountains, and Iran's threat of a ground invasion have led the Kurdistan Region of Iraq to tread carefully between its neighbours. Al Majalla explains.

Al Majalla explains the origins and evolution of the longest-running conflict in the post-Soviet space

The SDF commander rejects demands to disband his forces and tells Al Majalla in an exclusive interview that US-Russian tension east of the Euphrates is 'under control'

France's 'Suez Moment' has been a drawn-out one. Its influence has waxed and waned since the 1960s, but it has been on an overall downward trajectory throughout. Al Majalla explains.

The Saudi crown prince's interview on Fox News was packed with messages intended for his citizens, neighbouring nations, and major global powers.

If Saudi Arabia is to receive a defence pact, more powerful weapons, and assistance in building a civilian nuclear programme from the US, the American people will have to be behind all those things.

Washington is spending more time engaging with Algiers – long seen as more of an ally of Moscow and Beijing – as shifts in geopolitics centred on West Africa reverberate around the world

Artificial intelligence has consequences for humanity on the scale of Columbus' discovery of America. But how will this powerful new technology impact the Arab world? Al Majalla explains.

From normalising relations with Israel to the lingering controversy over Iran's nuclear ambitions, the Crown Prince showed no hesitation in confronting key issues affecting his country