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Thick smoke rises above the southern suburbs of Beirut after an Israeli strike on September 20, 2024. Israel says Hezbollah commander Ibrahim Aqil and around 10 other commanders were killed. Hezbollah has not confirmed Aqil’s death. AFP

Israel has bloodied Hezbollah but is stuck in a war of attrition

Two attacks on the Shiite militia may not change Israel's strategic dilemma in Lebanon

The Economist 21 September 2024
The discovery that Hezbollah’s communication devices are compromised will have a ripple effect, limiting the ability of Iran’s proxies to act and coordinate Barbara Gibson

Pager attack transforms 'axis of resistance' into 'axis of paranoia'

The discovery that Hezbollah's communication devices are compromised will have a ripple effect, limiting the ability of Iran's proxies to act and coordinate

Lina Khatib 20 September 2024
Using phones to kill or strike down traditional enemies is not new to Israel. It actually pre-dates both pagers and mobiles. Lina Jaradat

Israel's assassinations via telecoms predate pagers

From letter bombs to car bombs to even chocolate, Israel has a long, sordid history of assassinations and unorthodox ways to carry them out

Sami Moubayed 18 September 2024

Pager attack rips up Israel-Hezbollah rules of engagement

Fares Garabet 18 September 2024
Andrei Cojocaru

The biggest question about the Hezbollah pager attack is why now

A technically adroit strike could be a curtain-raiser for an expanded conflict

Colin P. Clarke 18 September 2024
Axel Rangel Garcia

Yoav Gallant: Netanyahu sacks his defence minister and key critic

After months of clashes over domestic politics and Israel's war efforts, Netanyahu has finally fired Gallant, saying the "trust between us has cracked"

Con Coughlin 15 October 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (2L) and Defence Minister Yoav Gallant (R) sit during a commemoration ceremony for Israeli soldiers killed in Gaza on July 16, 2024. Abir Sultan/AFP

Why Israel constantly hesitates when it comes to Hezbollah

Netanyahu is effectively stuck between a rock and a hard place. Public pressure to eliminate the threat posed by Hezbollah in the north is mounting, so why hasn't he acted yet? Al Majalla explains.

Michael Horowitz 17 September 2024
A man sits in front of a damaged building after an Israeli military raid in the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank on September 6, 2024. AFP

Ravaged but not defeated, Jenin braces for Israel's next raid

Israeli soldiers ransacked the West Bank refugee camp, looking for Palestinians fighting against their occupation, leaving a trail of death and destruction behind. For Jenin, this is now the norm.

Ahmed Draghmeh 15 September 2024
On 13 September 1993, the Oslo Accords were signed between Israeli and Palestinian leaders under US auspices. Since then, Israel has put facts on the ground that make a Palestinian state impossible. Andrei Cojocaru

31 years later, Oslo takes its last dying breaths

On 13 September 1993, the Oslo Accords were signed between Palestinian and Israeli leaders under US auspices. Since then, Israel has put facts on the ground that make a Palestinian state impossible.

Sami Moubayed 13 September 2024

Gaza ceasefire deal as elusive as ever

Fares Garabet 12 September 2024
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Trump, Sharaa, and the future of Syria

05 December 2025

There was visible warmth when the US and Syrian presidents met in the Oval Office last month, with some even speculating a Trump visit to Damascus. But there is much to do before that happens.

Robert Ford
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Politics

The GCC moves from ‘safe neutrality’ to ‘indivisible security’

05 December 2025

Following the unprecedented attacks on Qatar, Gulf leaders have pledged to forge a unified defence front, marking a historic shift from cautious neutrality to collective security

Omar Harkous
Jay Torres
Politics

The evolution of Latin America’s drug cartels

04 December 2025

What began as a locally rooted trade in coca leaves and opium evolved into a transnational system of cartels that challenged governments, corrupted institutions, and destabilised countries

Stefanie Butendieck Hijerra
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Politics

Why the US is asking Lebanon for its bomb back

05 December 2025

When Israel killed a Hezbollah military chief in late November, one GBU-39 bomb failed to detonate, leaving Washington worried that its adversaries could reverse engineer it

Michael Horowitz
Spanish poet Miriam Reyes Wikimedia Commons
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Spanish poet Miriam Reyes on escaping the prison of the page

03 December 2025

With her collection 'Con' having won Spain's 2025 National Poetry Prize, the Galician writer spoke to Al Majalla about the process of creation as she works on her first novel.

Mohammed Al-Bittari

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