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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
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
Lieutenant General Ahmed Khalifa with Egyptian troops in Sinai near the Rafah border crossing. Egyptian military spokesman/Facebook

Egypt uses Israeli presence on Gaza border to justify troop surge in Sinai

Despite Egypt's anger over Israel's takeover of the Philadelphi Corridor in breach of its peace treaty, Cairo is now able to do something it has long wanted

Amr Emam 10 September 2024
MAJALLA

Al Majalla publishes Olmert-Kidwa peace proposal

The draft includes a Palestinian state with a capital in Jerusalem, annexation of 4.4% of the West Bank territory, and "Arab security presence" in Gaza

Al Majalla - London 07 September 2024
AFP:Eduardo Ramon

Al-Qaddumi: Arafat was poisoned; we tried to obtain the antidote to save him

Al Majalla obtains exclusive minutes detailing PLO official Faruq al-Qaddumi's account of Arafat's final days and why he believes the Palestinian leader was assassinated

Ibrahim Hamidi 06 September 2024
An Israeli Samson C-130J Super Hercules cargo plane flies over the Israeli coastal city of Netanya towards northern Israel, on August 25, 2024. Jack Guez / AFP

Back to base: calm restored as both Israel and Hezbollah claim 'victory'

Few want a major escalation but both sides feel they must respond to the other, creating a rolling boil conflict with heightened rhetoric that remains susceptible to temperature changes

Michael Horowitz 28 August 2024
An image grab taken from a video released by the Hezbollah military press office on August 16, 2024, purportedly shows military capabilities in what the video describes as an underground position. Hezbollah military press office / AFP

What the video of Hezbollah’s new mountain facility can tell us

A 'missile city' in Lebanon's mountains is either the stereotypical lair or the ultimate safe haven, depending on how you see the armed Shiite group. As an exercise in propaganda, watch the video

Badia Fahs 22 August 2024
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Qatar's Emir Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani (C) reviews a military honour guard with Chinese President Xi Jinping (L) during a welcoming ceremony in Beijing's Great Hall of the People on January 31, 2019. GREG BAKER / AFP
Politics

Pivot to China? Gulf states mull options after Doha strike

12 September 2025

Israel's attack in Qatar erodes Gulf states' trust in the US and serves as a stark reminder that they cannot depend on American security guarantees

Xiaotong Yang
A Hezbollah flag is placed in front of the shrine of Shamoun al-Safa, built within a castle in the village of Shamaa in southern Lebanon's Tyre governorate, on January 31, 2025, that was heavily damaged by Israeli bombing. Mahmoud ZAYYAT / AFP
Business & Economy

Trump Economic Zone plan raises eyebrows in Lebanon

11 September 2025

Many Lebanese see the project as a demographic one with economic dressings aimed at expelling the country's southern population from their lands

Souraya Chahine
Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa Al Majalla
Politics

From Idlib to New York: Sharaa’s winding road the UN

12 September 2025

From the plains of Idlib to the presidential palace in Damascus and now the UN headquarters in Manhattan, Al Majalla traces the Syrian president's journey to get to this historic moment

Ibrahim Hamidi
Opinion

'The Voice of Hind Rajab' shows cries for justice are only getting louder

07 September 2025

A 24-minute standing ovation at the film premiere was more than a symbolic gesture of justice for Israel's murder of little Hind, but a heartfelt cry of real anguish over the ongoing genocide in Gaza

Samer Abou Hawwach
Egyptian writer May Telmissany poses during a portrait session held on April 15, 2014, in Paris, France. Ulf Andersen/Getty
Culture & Social Affairs

May Telmissany: writing is an act of resistance against the ugliness of the world

14 September 2025

The acclaimed Egyptian writer talks love, betrayal, autobiography, and the lack of Arab literary identity

El-Sayed Hussein

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