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Sara Padovan

How might US-Europe divergence impact the Middle East?

The upheaval in relations is accelerating changes in Europe's military and economic policies that will begin to impact its relations with the Arab world

Robert Ford 04 April 2025
US President Donald Trump delivers remarks on reciprocal tariffs as US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick holds a chart during an event in the Rose Garden entitled "Make America Wealthy Again" at the White House in Washington, DC, Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP

Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ brings even bigger tariffs than expected

Double-digit tariffs on nearly every trading partner will likely spark reprisals

Keith Johnson 03 April 2025
Al Majalla

Trump's war on US spy agencies has historical precedent

Three broad categories explain periods of CIA retreat: international events, technological change, and domestic political considerations

Steve Hewitt 01 April 2025

Bernie Sanders pushes Senate vote to block arms to Israel

Fares Garabet 31 March 2025
Iran nuclear sites Diana Estefanía Rubio

Iran's nuclear programme and the possibility of military action

The US and Israel want Tehran to completely dismantle its nuclear infrastructure, which it will not do. If they do decide to strike, Iran has limited options on how to respond.

Majid Rafizadeh 29 March 2025
Central Intelligence Agency Director John Ratcliffe, accompanied by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, speaks during a Senate Committee on Intelligence Hearing on March 25, 2025, in Washington, DC. Andrew Harnik / AFP

5 key questions about Signalgate

The biggest outstanding questions we have about the Signal group chat scandal

John Haltiwanger 26 March 2025
Al Majalla

Black Sea truce inches efforts to end the Ukraine war forward

Steve Witkoff, Trump's personal envoy to the Middle East, says US officials are "bridging the gap between the two sides" and was upbeat that a comprehensive deal could be reached by 20 April

Con Coughlin 26 March 2025
A woman uses her mobile telephone as she walks past a mural painted on the outer wall of the former US Embassy in Tehran, dubbed the 'Den of Espionage', on March 8, 2025. ATTA KENARE / AFP

Iran’s coming concessions to Trump

As defiant as it might sound, Tehran will ultimately find its way to a deal with Washington

Arash Azizi 25 March 2025
Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) and US President Donald Trump in Helsinki, on July 16, 2018. Putin told Trump in a phone call on February 12, 2025, that "peaceful negotiations" on ending the Ukraine conflict were possible. Brendan Smialowski / AFP

Putin's 'Art of No Deal' in Ukraine

By placing conditions to ending the war, the Russian president seems to be stretching the negotiations to bait Trump into maintaining pressure on Kyiv and weakening Europe

Michael Horowitz 23 March 2025
Al Majalla

The foreign agendas competing for Syria's future

Some predict partition, others federalism or fragmentation. Amidst the competing interests of Arab states, Russia, the US, Israel, Iran, Türkiye, and Europe, Syria treads its own path

Ibrahim Hamidi 22 March 2025
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Why siccing Syria's army on Hezbollah is so dangerous

28 June 2026

If Trump's idea is implemented, it would all but certainly further undermine regional stability and US interests in the Middle East

David Schenker
Neil Webb
Science & Technology

The G7 grapples with the politics of AI access

23 June 2026

As advanced AI models become strategic assets, the G7 is confronting difficult questions of access, dependence, and control

Marco Mossad
Massad Boulos, Trump's Middle East advisor, speaks at the Libya Energy and Economic Summit at the Tripoli International Conference Centre in Tripoli on 24 January, 2026. MAHMUD TURKIA / AFP
Politics

US plan for Libya: unification or management of division?

26 June 2026

A US envoy wants the institutions of western Libya to accommodate the son of an eastern warlord as Libyan president. Is this another doomed effort to unite the feuding factions, or could it work?

Areig Elhag
Grace Russell
Business & Economy

How the World Cup is boosting the Arab hospitality sector

26 June 2026

Owing to time-zone differences, the tournament is creating a new spending cycle for cafés and restaurants in Arab cities

Mohamed Sharki
Culture & Social Affairs

Umberto Eco's 'Inventing the Enemy' as relevant as ever

22 June 2026

A forgotten lecture by the renowned Italian writer at the University of Bologna in 2008 traced the history of hatred through language, myth, and imagination, all of which still apply today

Antoine Jockey

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