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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
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres holds a press conference at the prime minister's office in Jerusalem on August 28, 2017. Heidi Levine / AFP

Al Majalla obtains Guterres letter to Netanyahu on UNWRA ban

The UN Secretary-General warns Netanyahu that banning the UN agency would have devastating consequences for Palestinian refugees and reminds him of his obligations under international law

Al Majalla - London 31 October 2024
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In this image, taken from a video provided by the Russian Defence Ministry Press Service on 21 May 2026, a Russian navy seaman takes part in drills of Russia's nuclear forces. Russian Defence Ministry Press Service/AP
Politics

Russia’s timely reminder of its vast nuclear arsenal

03 June 2026

Military exercises in Belarus at an unusual time of year seem designed in part to make Moscow's adversaries think twice

Khattar Abu Diab
Opinion

Has Trump's patience with Netanyahu run out?

04 June 2026

The Israeli leader's intransigence is proving deeply problematic for the White House, so much so that Trump swore at him on a recent phone call

Con Coughlin
Units of Moqtada Sadr's militia parade with his photo down a main street of the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City June 21, 2014, in Eastern Baghdad. Washington Post
Politics

Sadr once again dismantles his armed militia. Why now?

03 June 2026

The decision to dismantle the Peace Brigades may herald a new stage in the Iraqi state's trajectory, or it could just be a shrewd recalibration to disorient friend and foe alike

Khairuldeen Al Makhzoomi
Adrián Astorgano
Business & Economy

Why people flock to the dollar when local currencies collapse

05 June 2026

An estimated 60% of all US banknotes in circulation are held outside the United States. In many parts of the world, the dollar is effectively the unofficial local currency. Al Majalla explains why.

Abdel-Rahman Ayas
A Royal Caribbean cruise sails into the Havana harbour on 6 May 2019, after the activation of Chapter III of the Helms-Burton Act, which sought to intensify the US blockade against Cuba. YAMIL LAGE / AFP
Politics

Cuba, lawfare, and Trump’s Venezuela temptation

02 June 2026

A new American legal ruling turns the screw on the Caribbean island nation by increasing the risks companies face by continuing to make money there. This is all part of the plan.

Stefanie Butendieck Hijerra

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