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A woman walks past the wreckage of a car on a street in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin. Jaafar ASHTIYEH / AFP

2025 could be a defining year for the West Bank

An emboldened settler movement drunk on the prospect of Trump recognising Israel's control there and an increasingly weakened Palestinian Authority make for a dangerous combination

Michael Horowitz 23 February 2025
Members of the Egyptian Special Forces during their deployment at the border between Egypt and the Gaza Strip in Rafah, October 20, 2023. AFP

Competing visions for the Middle East ahead of Cairo Summit

Israel, Türkiye, and Iran all have a plan for the region. Arab leaders met in Riyadh to come up with their own. Meanwhile, Trump walks back his plan for Gaza, saying he 'won't force it'.

Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy 22 February 2025

Israel receives 2,000-pound bombs cleared by Trump

Fares Garabet 17 February 2025
This picture shows a view of a road sign directing towards the city of Dimona, close to the nuclear power plant in the southern Israeli Negev desert. AFP / Ahmad GHARAB

How Israel deceived the US and built the bomb

Newly declassified documents reveal how Israel operated under the noses of US inspectors

Avner Cohen and William Burr 09 February 2025
US President Donald Trump (R) meets with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on February 4, 2025. ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP

What to make out of Trump's comments on US 'owning' Gaza

In a presser with Netanyahu, the US president said 'Gaza is no place for people to be living' and they should "settle permanently in a beautiful area" outside of Gaza where they can "be happy"

Michael Horowitz 05 February 2025
Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on January 28, 2020. Mandel Ngan/AFP

Good optics, but empty pockets

Netanyahu visits Washington in a much weaker position, and Trump will take advantage of that

Daniel C. Kurtzer and Aaron David Miller 04 February 2025
Elderly members of the Druze community gather in solidarity with the victims of the attack in Majdal Shams on July 30, 2024, in the Syrian town of Quneitra. LOUAI BESHARA / AFP

Syrian Druze wary of Israel's creeping presence in Quneitra

Residents of Quneitra province are wary of a creeping Israeli presence in their land, with some vowing "not to betray" those who died to keep the land Syrian

Shelly Kittleson 01 February 2025
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Mohammad Shtayyeh on Trump, Hamas and Israel

In an in-depth discussion with Al Majalla at his Ramallah office, the former Palestinian prime minister shared his insights on Trump, Hamas, the Palestinian Authority and Israel's far-right government

Ahmed Maher 31 January 2025

Israel turns its guns on the West Bank after Gaza ceasefire

Fares Garabet 27 January 2025
This aerial photo shows displaced Gazans gathering in an area in Nuseirat on January 26, 2025, being prevented by Israel from returning to their homes in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. AFP

Egypt wants to help shape Gaza's future, but not by taking in Palestinians

Cairo wants to show Trump it is a player worth consulting when it comes to Mideast geopolitics, but his comment that Jordan and Egypt should take in Palestinians will not be well-received

Amr Emam 27 January 2025
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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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