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A displaced woman rests in Tawila, in the country's war-torn western Darfur region, on 28 October 2025, after fleeing el-Fasher following the city’s fall to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). AFP

From siege to slaughter: the fall of el-Fasher

After over 500 days of a crippling blockade, the city finally fell to the RSF, cementing their control of the giant Darfur state in western Sudan and giving them full access to key supply routes

Amgad Fareid Eltayeb 30 October 2025
Peter Reynolds

The fight for resources could determine who 'wins' the war in Sudan

The army and the RSF rely on the assets at their disposal to sustain governance and fund their war efforts, while trying to win over the international community by seizing larger swathes of Sudan

Sharif Mohammad 19 October 2025
Al Majalla

New details emerge on Kamal Jumblatt's assassination

Classified documents from the 1970s obtained by Al Majalla show what led to the killing of the Lebanese Druze politician and how Syria came to occupy Lebanon

Ibrahim Hamidi 23 August 2025
Al Majalla

Kamal Jumblatt’s letter to Assad days before he was killed

The Druze leader, whose forces were winning Lebanon's civil war, disagreed with Syria's president over it. Now, Al Majalla publishes a letter he sent to Assad, aiming to put them on the same page.

Al Majalla - London 23 August 2025
Ishag Abdullah Khatir, 30, from Geneina in West Sudan, whose leg was amputated after RSF soldiers shot him, poses for a portrait on April 20, 2024, in Adre, Chad. Getty

Foreign meddling in Sudan's war is only part of the problem

The country has all the ingredients that enflame tensions: acute social inequality, an unformed national identity and myriad ethnic groups, all of which were exacerbated by colonial rule

Sergey Eledinov 22 August 2025
UN special representative Volker Perthes addresses the media in Khartoum on 10 January 2022 to announce that the United Nations will launch talks to help Sudan. A year later, the country descended into civil war. Ashraf Shazly/AFP via Getty Images

Volker Perthes: fragmentation and stalemate awaits Sudan

In a wide-ranging interview, the German scholar and former UN envoy offers a sobering assessment of the conflict's trajectory.

Ibrahim Hamidi 12 July 2025
Lina Jaradat

The price of Lebanon’s civil war is still being paid

Fifty years after the outbreak of fighting, Lebanon still suffers from the effects of corruption and clientelism, undermining the achievements made during brief periods of stability

Abdulfattah Khattab 19 April 2025
Lina Jaradat

Only national reconciliation can heal Lebanon's civil war wounds

Fifty years ago today, a civil war that lasted 15 years ripped the country apart. Today, outstanding grievances and underlying causes of that war still remain, leaving the country on shaky ground.

Ali Mourad 13 April 2025
Lina Jaradat

Young Lebanese artists summon the ghosts of the civil war

Living through crises, tragedy, and war, followed by crises, tragedy, and war, Al Majalla speaks to four young artists turning to art to make sense of their country and inheritance

Ibrahim Tutunji 10 April 2025
In this file photo taken on June 8, 2022 Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces commander, General Mohamed Hamdan Daglo (Hemedti), now de facto deputy military leader, attends a meeting in Khartoum. AFP

Behind Hemedti's charge against Egypt lies an admission of defeat

The head of the Rapid Support Forces blames Cairo for his militia's recent heavy losses south of Khartoum. Al Majalla offers several explanations for Hemedti's finger-wagging.

Amr Emam 19 October 2024
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Trump-Xi meeting is about much more than trade

22 October 2025

US and Chinese leaders have locked themselves into a downward spiral that goes far beyond tariffs, exports, and rare earths. This is about the future and who controls it.

Shirley Ze Yu
Governor of the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia, Yasir Al-Rumayyan, delivers his speech at the opening of the ninth edition of the Future Investment Initiative (FII), in Riyadh, 28 October 2025. Reuters
Business & Economy

Investing in people and AI: Saudi Arabia’s vision for a new Middle East

29 October 2025

Now in its ninth edition, Riyadh's Future Investment Initiative has transformed from an investment forum into a geo-economic platform redefining how nations link peace, progress, and technology

Omar Harkous
People walk amid the destruction in Gaza City in the northern Gaza Strip on October 11, 2025, a day after a ceasefire took effect. AFP
Politics

Gaza's partition: Palestinian peril dressed up as pragmatism

26 October 2025

Presented as post-war stabilisation, an experiment in controlled fragmentation appears to be underway, with diplomacy, security, and commerce converging to cement a new geopolitical order

Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy
Opinion

West Bank annexation could upend the region

24 October 2025

Jordan's 1994 peace treaty with Israel remains a cornerstone of regional stability. It has survived two intifadas and recurrent Gaza conflicts, but annexation would push it to the brink

Alice Gower
Secretary of State Marco Rubio stands with Rwanda's FM Olivier Nduhungirehe and Democratic Republic of Congo's FM Therese Kayikwamba Wagner, after signing a peace agreement in Washington on June 27, 2025. AP / Mark Schiefelbein
Politics

The flaw in America's Africa policy

27 October 2025

With China, Türkiye, the Gulf states, and Russia offering tangible investment and influence in Africa, the US's reliance on facilitation and hollow declarations has reduced it to a mere observer

Sergey Eledinov

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