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Riot police face protestors in Bristol, southern England, on August 3, 2024. Justin Tallis/AFP

The UK is in the grip of nationwide rioting over illegal immigrants

After three children were killed, false reports on social media said the killer was a Muslim asylum seeker who had arrived on a small boat. Incensed, Britons have taken to the streets, bricks in-hand

Con Coughlin 06 August 2024
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UK local polls: Labour and Tories bleed support from their respective bases

Labour's support is down by eight points since last year because of its support for Israel's war on Gaza, and Conservative voters are increasingly switching to the right-wing Reform party

Con Coughlin 11 May 2024
A soldier on board a tank looks out over an Egyptian street during the Suez Crisis Getty Images

There's a lesson in the 1956 Suez Crisis as Gaza war rages on

Biden can learn important lessons from how Eisenhower handled the 1956 Suez war, argues Syrian historian Sami Moubayed

Sami Moubayed 18 November 2023
Newly appointed Foreign Secretary David Cameron walks outside 10 Downing Street

David Cameron: The veteran UK politician granted a new lease of life

Braverman got her wish and was duly sacked. But If the Conservatives lose the next election, she will be a shoo-in for the leadership of her defeated party.

Bryn Haworth 16 November 2023
Britain's King Charles III (C), flanked by Rwanda's president Paul Kagame (C-L), Secretary General of the Commonwealth Patricia Scotland (C-L) and Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak (2nd C-R) in Commonwealth group picture. AFP

Charles III’s Commonwealth stands on shaky ground

It is unclear if Charles has the charm and respect to bind the club of nations together in the way his mother did. With Britain lacking the global power it once had, it is hard to see the organisation

Christopher Phillips 19 May 2023
Home Secretary Suella Braverman speaks in the House of Commons, London, on the Illegal Migration Bill, Tuesday March 7, 2023. AP

Are British immigrants becoming vessels for racism?

As Braverman has been busily characterising 'migrants' as invaders, the political scene in Britain has been steadily becoming more multicultural

Bryn Haworth 13 April 2023
Britain's King Charles III, 2nd right, talks with soldiers during his visit at the 130th German-British Pioneer Bridge Battalion military unit in Finowfurt, eastern Germany, on Thursday, March 30, 2023. AP

King Charles Germany visit a soft power victory

The British monarch gave a consummate speech, funny and moving by turns, the very essence of soft power, and the Bundestag loved it

Bryn Haworth 06 April 2023

Two British novels that poignantly depict the Syrian tragedy

Although the Syrian plight has been widely written on by Arab authors, these powerful works struggle to reach a global audience unlike their Western peers

Haitham Hussein 01 April 2023
Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen shake hands during a joint press conference following their meeting at the Fairmont Hotel in Windsor, west of London, on February 27, 2023. AFP

Three years after Brexit, new spirit of UK-EU cooperation emerges

Given the bitterness that has surrounded Brexit, Sunak's diplomatic triumph in resolving Northern Ireland issue is all the more remarkable

Con Coughlin 28 February 2023
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak attends a Joint Expeditionary Force (JEF) plenary session in Riga, Latvia December 19, 2022. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls/Pool

UK Has 'Ambition' to Send Tanks to Ukraine, PM Sunak Tells Zelenskiy

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak outlined Britain's ambition to send some of its main battle tanks to Ukraine along with additional artillery support during a phone call on Saturday with Ukrainian…

14 January 2023
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As Sharaa steps into the White House, Syria steps into the US orbit

09 November 2025

In what could be a historic turning point in US-Syria relations, the new government in Damascus will likely join the international coalition against the Islamic State (IS)

Subhi Franjieh
Axel Rangel Garcia
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Barbara Leaf on being the first US official to meet Ahmed Sharaa

10 November 2025

On Monday, the Syrian president shook hands with Trump at the White House. Speaking to Al Majalla, a former State Department official explains why this is a moment she could have never imagined.

Ibrahim Hamidi
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Zohran Mamdani becomes first Muslim mayor of New York

04 November 2025

The 34-year-old socialist's win is a seismic development, proving that tax rises for the rich to fund social programmes, and unwavering advocacy for Palestinian rights, are politically viable stances

Tarek Rashed
Details of the remains of Palestinians released by Israel are shown on a screen in order to help family members to identify their relatives, at the Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on 18 October 2025. OMAR AL-QATTAA / AFP
Politics

Closure denied: the agonising search for Gaza's vanished

05 November 2025

Those who are able to bury their dead are among the lucky. For others, not knowing the fate of their missing loved ones or receiving mutilated corpses impossible to identify adds insult to injury.

Salem Al Rayyes
Ewan White
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How Trump reshaped the world

03 November 2025

Al Majalla examines key developments in the US and across the globe less than a year into Trump's second presidential term

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