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The Great Colonnade (Decumanus Maximus) at Palmyra, one of six Syrian sites on the UNESCO elite list of world heritage. All of them sustained some level of damage in the 13-year civil war. Omar Haj Kadour/AFP

The plundering of Syria's cultural heritage - Part 2

The second instalment of a two-part investigation into the unprecedented looting of Syria's archaeological sites, Al Majalla uncovers the destruction of a rich archaeological landscape

Abdul Rahman Mazhar Halloush 18 July 2025
Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) jihadist group's chief Abu Mohamed al-Jolani (right) in a photo with Abu Maria al-Qahtani

Top Iraqi jihadist killing won't guarantee power for Jolani

Weeks after his release, Abu Maria al-Qahtani has been assassinated. He was challenging Abu Mohammed al-Jolani within Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS). Now al-Jolani has a clear road ahead.

Lina Khatib 05 April 2024
Hundreds of newly trained al-Shabab fighters perform military exercises in the Lafofe area some 18 km south of Mogadishu, in Somalia on Feb. 17, 2011. AP

How the Sahel became a breeding ground for terrorists

A huge belt of land dividing the dry Sahara from the tropical savannah has become a playground for mercenaries. An absence of state security, poverty, and a lack of education create the perfect storm.

Abdullah F. Alrebh 18 February 2024
Yazidi women and children who fled to the Sinjar mountain after the Islamic State attacked the town of Sinjar. April 2015. Shelly Kittleson

Yazidis still face oppression after IS defeat

First, IS took their right to make decisions away from them but now various armed groups operating in the area do so as well

Shelly Kittleson 03 August 2023
A woman walks in an unpaved but central street in the town north of Baghdad. Tarmiyah, Iraq. March 20, 2023. Shelly Kittleson

Iraq tries to root out IS remnants in farms north of the capital

Islamic State attacks near Baghdad and in the oil-rich Kirkuk province have led to Iraq stepping up operations amid the summer heat

Shelly Kittleson 28 June 2023
In this file photo taken on March 3, 2019, smoke and fire billow after shelling on the Islamic State group's last holdout of Baghouz, in the eastern Syrian Deir Ezzor province. Al Majalla and AFP

Nine years after 'Islamic State' founded in Syria and Iraq, terrorism threat remains ever-present

Al Majalla journalists take a comprehensive look, six years following the group's defeat, at what has changed and what threats remain as thousands of IS fighters and families linger in Syrian camps

Al Majalla - London 28 June 2023
Al Majalla takes an exclusive tour inside Al-Hol camp in Syria, where IS families are housed with no promising prospect of being repatriated to their home countries. Delil Souleiman

Inside Al-Hol Camp: IS threat lingers as world stalls repatriation

Al Majalla takes an exclusive tour of the camp, speaking to both residents and administration officials on the lingering threats and how they are working to address these challenges

Rustum Mahmud 28 June 2023
Syrian Kurdish Asayish security forces stand guard outside a house during a raid against suspected Islamic State group fighters in Raqa, the jihadist group's former de facto capital in Syria, on January 29, 2023. AFP

IS will thrive as long as drivers of instability remain in Syria

In the absence of any clear and strict conditionality within the regional re-engagement with al-Assad's regime, such groups have more grounds for optimism than concern about their future.

Charles Lister 28 June 2023
Multiple reconstruction projects underway across the city are being funded by the UN, EU, US, but the UN estimated it could take 10 years to clear Mosul of landmines and corpses lie under many streets. Al Majalla_Shelly Kittleson

Mosul on the mend six years after IS fall

Multiple reconstruction projects underway across the city are being funded by the UN, EU, US, but the UN estimated it could take 10 years to clear Mosul of landmines and corpses lie under many streets

Shelly Kittleson 28 June 2023
This is the third IS leader to have been killed in 14 months — placing the leadership of the worldwide jihadist movement under serious and unprecedented strain. Majalla

IS under unprecedented strain after yet another leader killed

This is the third IS leader to have been killed in 14 months — placing the leadership of the worldwide jihadist movement under serious and unprecedented strain

Charles Lister 01 May 2023
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US President Donald Trump meets Russian President Vladimir Putin to negotiate for an end to the war in Ukraine in Anchorage, Alaska, on August 15, 2025. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
Politics

Putin rides high after Alaska

18 August 2025

Seven instances that showed the Russian leader had the upper hand during his meeting with Trump

Robert Ford
Aliaa Aboukhaddour
Culture & Social Affairs

How Gaza’s hakawati use storytelling to cling to memory and life

17 August 2025

Storytelling in a genocide in which there has been no formal education for two years is no luxury. Rather, it is an attempt to revive the imaginations of a generation robbed of their childhood.

Houssam Marouf
Syrian Defence Minister Murhaf Abu Qasra and Turkish Defence Minister Yaşar Güler hold up an MOU on security cooperation in Ankara on August 13, 2025. Syrian Foreign Ministry
Politics

The implications of expanded Syria-Türkiye military ties

15 August 2025

Israel has made clear its objection to Turkish military bases in Syria. Could a recently signed MOU between Ankara and Damascus to boost security cooperation threaten Türkiye's good ties with the US?

Omer Onhon
Al Majalla
Business & Economy

How Vision 2030 diversified the Saudi economy

16 August 2025

In the second instalment of a two-part series, Al Majalla looks at how Saudi Arabia moved from a horizontal to a vertical development model, powered by an ambitious package of reforms

Hussein al-Sharaa
Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer makes an address following an emergency cabinet meeting on Gaza at 10 Downing Street in London on July 29, 2025. Toby Melville / AFP
Politics

Performative politics: Palestine recognition pledges ring hollow

18 August 2025

The moves by France, the UK and other Western states appear to be more about appeasing domestic critics with symbolic gestures rather than a genuine attempt to change Israel's behaviour

Christopher Phillips

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