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People attend a concert on the opening night of the fourth Damascus Citadel Nights Festival in Damascus on August 2, 2023. AFP

From parties to poverty, Syria's drastically different worlds spark outrage

While the majority of Syrians grapple with a worsening economic crisis and can barely get by, a shrinking group of regime loyalists are profiting at the expense of others

Omer Onhon 30 August 2023
Al Majalla exclusively reveals the various stages of the initiatives which include the dismantling of the Al-Tanf base, the withdrawal of foreign forces, reconstruction, and the lifting of sanctions, all without a timetable. Al Majalla

Jordanian Initiative ends with Iran and Hezbollah's exit from Syria

Al Majalla exclusively reveals the various stages of the initiatives which include the dismantling of the Al-Tanf base, the withdrawal of foreign forces, reconstruction, and the lifting of sanctions

Ibrahim Hamidi 25 June 2023
Eiko Ojala

The astronomical $700bn price tag of Syria's war

The economic devastation wrought on Syria by war is outmatched by a horrendous human cost. Changing its trajectory will be harder while those responsible for the plight remain in power.

Rabie Nasser 15 June 2023
Turkish soldiers are seen during the farewell ceremony ahead of going for their duty in jarabulus district of syria. Getty Images

Our haunting tour of Hama during the onset of Syria's uprising

Ömer Önhon, Turkey's last ambassador to Syria, gives a first-hand account of what he saw in Hama, recounting the stories people had shared with him of the atrocities they experienced.

Omer Onhon 12 June 2023
Andrei Cojocaru

Will Syria’s return to the Arab fold strengthen Arab unity?

The Arab world now has a chance to remake itself on a deeper level, writes Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy, who was involved in the process as a deputy UN envoy to Syria, which is now back in the Arab fold.

Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy 09 June 2023
Last month, the Arab League readmitted Syria after 12 years of regional isolation. But how did it get here? Al Majalla lays out the chronology of significant events that unfolded since 2011. Ewan White

Syria timeline: Protests, war, displacement, isolation and...reintegration

Last month, the Arab League readmitted Syria after 12 years of regional isolation. But how did it get here? Al Majalla lays out the chronology of significant events that unfolded since 2011.

Al Majalla - London 09 June 2023
 Saddam Hussein meets Syrian President Hafez al-Assad in Damascus January 28, 1979.

Saddam to al-Assad: No handshakes

First-hand account from Syrian vice-president of the efforts, throughout 1987, to improve relations between Syrian and Iraq

Ibrahim Hamidi 19 April 2023
Syria's President Bashar al-Assad swears the presidential oath for a fourth term, in Damascus, Syria, in this handout released by SANA on July 17, 2021. SANA/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo

Assad Says Turkey Talks Must Be Based On Ending 'Occupation'

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has said talks with foe Turkey should be based on the aims of ending the occupation of Syrian land and halting support for what he called terrorism, an apparent…

13 January 2023
President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan delivers his messages to the journalists in G20 Summit's news conference in Media Center, BICC, Nusa Dua, Badung Regency, Bali, Indonesia, November 16, 2022. ADITYA PRADANA PUTRA/G20 Media Center/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo

Leaders of Turkey, Syria Could Meet For Peace - Erdogan

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday he may meet Syria's Bashar al-Assad as part of a new peace process after their defense ministers met last week for the highest-level talks between…

05 January 2023
1-	Syrian government forces stand in Kobajjep some 40 kilometres west of Deir Ezzor after taking control of the town as they advance towards Deir Ezzor in the battle against Islamic State (IS) group jihadists on September 5, 2017. (Photo credit should read GEORGE OURFALIAN/AFP/Getty Images)

Iranian Militias May Try to Expand Further if There is any New Attack in Northern Syria

With Moscow preoccupied with the Ukrainian war and the withdrawal of some of its forces and senior military leaders from Syrian territory after an intervention that lasted for years and prevented the…

Jiwan Soz 01 July 2022
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The Saudi crown prince's interview on Fox News was packed with messages intended for his citizens, neighbouring nations, and major global powers. Reuters
Politics

The seven messages of Mohammed bin Salman

22 September 2023

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

Hesham Alghannam
The conflict over Karabakh had been the longest-running in the post-Soviet space. Al Majalla explains the origins of the conflict and how it has evolved over the decades. Majalla/Agencies
Politics

Nagorno-Karabakh's perpetual conflict shows Soviet Union still crumbling

25 September 2023

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

Anna Borshchevskaya
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. Majalla/Agencies
Politics

France’s African empire may have had its ‘Suez Moment’

24 September 2023

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.

Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy
Mazloum Abdi (Kobani), commander-in-chief of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), speaks with AFP during an interview in the countryside outside the northwestern Syrian city of Hasakah. AFP
Politics

Mazloum Abdi: Syria, Iran, and Turkey 'incited' Arab tribes to attack the SDF

24 September 2023

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'

Ibrahim Hamidi
A woman spreads bulgur to dry in the sun after grinding it in the Lebanese southern town of Marjayoun, on July 15, 2020. AFP / JOSEPH EID
Culture & Social Affairs

Harvesting the homeland: How the Syrian bulgur season used to bring joy to villagers

24 September 2023

Syrian novelist Khaled Khalifa recalls the joy that bulgur season used to bring to his village in Syria. Now the simple pleasure is disappearing from households as a harrowing consequence of war.

Khaled Khalifa

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