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A lineup of some of Trump's foreign policymaker picks, which include Marco Rubio as secretary of state, Pete Hegseth as defence secretary, Elise Stefanik as US ambassador to the UN and Mike Walz as National Security advisor. AFP

Trump cabinet picks: A dream line-up for Israel's far right

The general feeling within Netanyahu's entourage is one of jubilation. In fact, they couldn't have picked more favourable appointees themselves.

Michael Horowitz 19 November 2024

Israel pushes for Hezbollah's total disarmament

Fares Garabet 18 November 2024
Russia's President Vladimir Putin (R) shakes hands with Syria's President Bashar al-Assad during their meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow on July 24, 2024. Valery SHARIFULIN/AFP

Why Russia is reasserting itself in Syria

Moscow has boosted its military presence in southern Syria near deconfliction lines with Israel, and its revitalised interest in being a key regional player hasn't gone unnoticed in Israel

Haid Haid 18 November 2024

Where will Israel turn its guns to next?

Fares Garabet 14 November 2024
Aliaa Aboukhaddour

Destroying Hezbollah’s heartland will change Lebanon forever

A new wave of social and demographic re-engineering is unfurling that includes Syrians, Palestinians, and displaced Lebanese Shiites

Houssam Itani 13 November 2024
Representatives of OPEC member states hold a press conference following the their meeting in Vienna, Austria. AFP

Oil markets weigh prospect of a full-scale Iran-Israel war

Despite sanctions, Iran is still a big oil producer, with huge refining capacity. It also controls waterways crucial to the flow of Gulf oil. Yet the West has reserves and China's demand is dropping.

Abdulfattah Khattab 12 November 2024
In Gaza, Israel has set records in killing journalists and aid workers, producing the fastest onset of a hunger crisis, targeting hospitals and medical workers, and creating the largest cohort of pediatric amputees. Ann Kiernan

Gaza is a manufactured apocalypse

As we bear witness to the endless livestream of death and destruction on our phones, it is important to call Israel's war on Gaza what it truly is: a genocide

Assal Rad 12 November 2024
Grace Russell

The promise and danger of AI in the military

Militaries around the world will face competitive pressures to increase their reliance on AI, but to avoid catastrophe, its use must be guided by laws, rules, and norms

Bilal Saab 09 November 2024
Fighters lift flags of Iraq and paramilitary groups, including al-Nujaba and Kataib Hezbollah, during a funeral in Baghdad for five militants killed a day earlier in a US strike in northern Iraq, on December 4, 2023. AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP

Iraq could pay the price for Iran's next move against Israel

As the flames of conflict spread, Iraqis—much like the Palestinians and Lebanese before them—could find themselves ensnared in a struggle they neither instigated nor can control

Haid Haid 08 November 2024

UNRWA ban brings Israel's contempt for the UN to the fore

Fares Garabet 04 November 2024
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Politics

Syria's new post-sanctions test

22 December 2025

Damascus finally gets breathing room after the US repealed its draconian Caesar sanctions, but it can't exhale just yet. Al Majalla explains why.

Haid Haid
Opinion

Israeli gas and the crafting of a 'new Middle East'

22 December 2025

The US is poised to use Israeli gas as a lever to keep Iran on the backfoot following its regional setback, and it could even use it to undercut Russia's economy

Ibrahim Hamidi
Women and children at the Zamzam displacement camp, close to el-Fasher in North Darfur, Sudan, in January 2024. REUTERS/Mohamed Zakaria
Politics

After el-Fasher: the trajectory of war in Sudan

16 November 2025

Washington seems to have changed its tone after the RSF committed atrocities in October, putting increasing pressure on the foreign backers of a paramilitary that now controls Darfur. What next?

Amgad Fareid Eltayeb
Despite a new president, a new prime minister, a new government, and a new central bank governor, what has actually changed after Lebanon's economic collapse? Lina Jaradat
Business & Economy

A state in crisis: Lebanon’s struggle to restore financial stability 

20 December 2025

Following the appointment of a new president, Lebanon has struggled to come to terms with the deep-rooted challenges of its financial collapse

Toufic Chanbour
Culture & Social Affairs

This year in film: landmark moments across platforms

22 December 2025

Al Majalla looks back at a memorable and haunting year in film, with Kaouther Ben Hania's The Voice of Hind Rajab one of 2025's most powerful works

Wael Said

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Israel is bleeding support on the US Christian right

Tarek Rashed
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Mexico City: where the ordinary and extraordinary coexist in chaotic harmony

Samer Abou Hawwach
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A revised Ukraine peace plan awaits Putin's response

Con Coughlin
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Israel exaggerates Hezbollah's strength

Fares Garabet
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