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Will Israel respect the Gaza ceasefire terms?

Fares Garabet 16 January 2025
Palestinians react to the news on a ceasefire deal with Israel, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, January 15, 2025. REUTERS/Hatem Khaled

One question looms over Israel-Hamas truce deal: Why now?

Biden has been pushing for a deal for more than a year with no success until now. Is Trump the reason?

Daniel Byman 16 January 2025
US President Joe Biden pulls a note card from his pocket as he speaks from the Treaty Room in the White House about the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan on April 14, 2021, in Washington, DC. AFP

Joe Biden’s final foreign-policy report card

It didn't have to be this way, but Biden's foreign-policy legacy will be a world that is less rule-bound, less prosperous, and significantly more dangerous

Stephen M. Walt 15 January 2025
Lina Jaradat

Why Israel went after the man in the white coat

The arrest of Dr Hussam Abu Safiya in northern Gaza shows that destruction is not the only aim of the occupation; humiliation is also a key component of Israel's war of annihilation

Samer Abou Hawwach 09 January 2025
Cars drive past billboards on November 6, 2024, bearing portraits of leaders of the Lebanese Hezbollah group Hasan Nasrallah (R) and of the Palestinian Hamas movement Yahya Sinwar, who were killed by Israel in 2024. Ahmad GHARABLI / AFP

Three seismic events that shook the Arab world in 2024

From Gaza to Lebanon and Syria, this is the story of a year of tumult and surprise which has reshaped the region and echoed through global affairs. And Trump's return means more uncertainty ahead.

Wahid Abdel Maguid 30 December 2024
Israeli soldiers with their Merkava tanks near Gaza. A range of regional powers all willing and able to intervene increases the risk of conflict in the Middle East. Getty Images

Israel in the new Middle East: A military giant with no legs

The region is changing, in part due to Israel's own successes. But if it leaves foreign policy decision-making to a heavily politicised clique, it may not be able to reap the rewards.

Michael Horowitz 28 December 2024
Philippe Lazzarini AFP

Philippe Lazzarini: Saudi push for two-state solution ‘the only game in town’

The head of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency in Gaza tells Al Majalla a ceasefire in Gaza is desperately needed and warns of a humanitarian 'vacuum' without UNRWA

Ibrahim Hamidi 27 December 2024
Ewan White

How Israel’s longest war is reshaping its defence industry

Faced with threats to use weapon supply as a tool of leverage against Israel, one would expect to have Israel's defence industry leaders dead with worry. But that is not the case.

Michael Horowitz 10 December 2024

Netanyahu's revolving wars

Fares Garabet 05 December 2024
Writer and researcher Lina Meruane David Levenson - Getty Images

Lina Meruane on Palestinian erasure and genocide in real time

The acclaimed writer tells Al Majalla that Israel has used October 7 as a pretext to seize Palestinian land and erase their culture and history

Nesrein El-Bakhshawangy 02 December 2024
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Ex-Prince Andrew's arrest rocks the British monarchy

20 February 2026

His arrest is the first for a British royal in modern history and comes after it was revealed he had passed confidential state documents to US financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein

Con Coughlin
Axel Rangel Garcia
Business & Economy

Finding an economic off-ramp to avert a US-Iran war

18 February 2026

Iran's vast oil and strategic mineral reserves have moved to the centre of negotiations with the US, which could reshape Trump's calculus

Thuraya Shahin
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio with Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani and SDF Commander Mazloum Abdi @USAMBTurkiye via X
Politics

SDF presence in Munich raises eyebrows in Ankara

18 February 2026

Despite having signed an agreement to integrate into the Syrian state, its leaders attended a key security conference in Germany as a separate delegation from Damascus, in a move that unnerves Türkiye

Omer Onhon
Aliaa Aboukhaddour
Culture & Social Affairs

The Kuwaiti collector preserving Fairuz's legacy

16 February 2026

Faris Al-Muhanna dreams of one day creating a digital archive to safeguard the history and memory of Lebanon's most iconic artist for future generations

Charbel Khoury
Children watch the Indian Air Force (IAF) Surya Kiran aerobatics team performing during Aero India 2025, a military aviation exhibition at the Yelahanka Air Force Station in Bengaluru on 13 February 2025. Idrees MOHAMMED / AFP
Politics

India’s record defence budget turns heads

15 February 2026

A $86.7bn budget, rapid naval expansion, and longer-range missile development underline New Delhi's drive to modernise its forces and compete more assertively with China and Pakistan

Shakir Husain

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