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This handout image shows a satellite view of the US military outpost, Tower 22 in Rukban, Rwaished District, Jordan, October 12, 2023. Reuters

Deadly attack on US troops in Jordan marks major escalation

Biden now has a hard choice to make: push Israel into a ceasefire in Gaza or risk a sustained Iran-backed escalation in the region

Andrew Tabler 29 January 2024
The more Israel's war on Gaza drags on, the more Nasrallah's speeches lose their value, and the more impotent Hezbollah appears. Majalla

Is it the beginning of the end of Hezbollah?

The more Israel's war on Gaza drags on, the more Nasrallah's speeches lose their value, and the more impotent Hezbollah appears.

Lina Khatib 28 January 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stands at an overview of the Israeli settlement of Har Homa (background) on February 20, 2020. AFP

Netanyahu centres reelection bid on burying two-state solution

As his popularity plummets, Netanyahu wants to portray himself as the only figure who can fend off growing US pressure to return to peace track.

Michael Horowitz 25 January 2024
A picture taken from a position in southern Israel along the border with the Gaza Strip on January 18, 2024, shows Israeli army vehicles driving on a road in Gaza amid continuing battles between Israel and the militant group Hamas. AFP

Israel’s bid to take Philadelphi Corridor comes with great risk

Israeli calls to retake control of Egypt's border with Gaza have been sharply rejected in Cairo. If Israel goes it alone, could its peace treaty with Egypt be at risk?

Amr Emam 24 January 2024
The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)   during a summit in the Saudi capital Riyadh on 20 October 2023. AFP

What are the biggest challenges facing the GCC in 2024?

Israel's war on Gaza, rising US-China tensions, the stubborn war between Russia and Ukraine, and the worsening effects of climate change top GCC leaders' concern this year

Dana Al Enezzi 23 January 2024
A woman holding a girl reacts after Israeli air strikes hit Ridwan neighbourhood of Gaza City, Gaza on October 23, 2023 Getty

A shattered Gaza dominates cultural debate in a shocked Arab world

War and violence are breathing new life into old grievances. It has always been the job of art and culture to help make sense of what we see. Is it still a reliable guide in this tumultuous world? 

Mohamed abi Samra 23 January 2024
Palestinians protest during a visit by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Ramallah, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on January 10, 2024. AFP

The US project for Gaza's 'day after' and conditions for peace

Al Majalla reviews the US roadmap for ending Israel's war on Gaza and puts forth a more realistic and comprehensive resolution for a lasting peace in the region.

Hesham Alghannam 22 January 2024

Palestinians in Gaza wait for their turn to die

Fares Garabet 22 January 2024
Through its genocide case against Israel, South Africa's own history of fighting apartheid and oppression can be recalled. It's also a bold move to call out Western hypocrisy. Majalla

South Africa’s decades-long solidarity with Palestine on display at ICJ

Through its genocide case against Israel, South Africa's own history of fighting apartheid and oppression can be recalled. It's also a bold move to call out Western hypocrisy.

Christopher Phillips 21 January 2024
Not that long ago, nobody took Ben-Gvir and Smotrich seriously. Today, they are ministers in Israel’s government, with expanded remits and power over the West Bank. How did it get to this? Majalla

Ben-Gvir and Smotrich: The extremist duo who rose to power in Israel

Not that long ago, nobody took these men seriously. Today, they are ministers in Israel's government, with expanded remits and power over the Occupied West Bank. How did it get to this?

Michael Horowitz 20 January 2024
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Change is coming in Iran

09 January 2026

Khamenei has struck a defiant tone amid growing protests against his regime, but a series of regional setbacks, coupled with an emboldened Trump, could finally bring it down

Arash Azizi
Forces that seized control of the Second Military Region Command on the outskirts of Al Mukalla, the capital of Hadramout, on 3 January 2026. AFP
Politics

Saudi Arabia's red line in Yemen explained

08 January 2026

Overcoming Yemen's fragmentation requires more support for the Riyadh-led path—one that rejects secession, all militias and institutionalises the state

Abdullah F. Alrebh
Al Majalla
Politics

5 unanswered questions about Trump’s Venezuela plan

06 January 2026

Maduro's exit doesn't mean the end of his government

Ravi Agrawal
Buses wait to enter the Sheikh Maqsoud neighbourhood to evacuate US-backed Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) force fighters from two districts of the city of Aleppo, northern Syria, on 9 January 2026. Bakr ALkasem / AFP
Politics

Clashes in Aleppo may be the creaking before the earthquake

10 January 2026

If fighting spreads beyond the predominantly Kurdish neighbourhoods of Ashrafieh and Sheikh Maqsoud and beyond Aleppo, there is a real risk that Syria could be dragged into a new civil war

Omer Onhon
Al Majalla
Documents & Memoirs

Putin foreshadowed the Ukraine war in 2008 meeting with Bush

06 January 2026

Recently declassified meeting minutes between the two leaders show how Washington was well aware of Moscow's grievances over NATO expansion, but went ahead anyway

Samer Elias

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