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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
The harrowing sounds of war in Gaza no longer come from just whistling bombs but from projected screams via Israeli quadcopters sent out over refugee camps at night. Lina Jaradat

Sounds of screams and barks: Israel's aural terror of Gaza at night

Israel's quadcopter drones are fitted with loudspeakers and flown over camps after midnight playing the sounds of children screaming and women pleading. Those who go out to help are then shot

Salem Al Rayyes 21 August 2024
The stakes are high as Israel and Iran go toe-to-toe throughout the region with a series of strikes and counter strikes. Will it be managed, or will it end dramatically? Shutterstock

At a crossroads: the Middle East now has but two choices

The past ten months have upended policy trajectories relating to the Middle East. How the conflict unfolds in the coming weeks will have huge and unpredictable consequences for millions

Paul Salem 17 August 2024
Members of Hezbollah carry the coffin of Wissam Tawil, a commander of Hezbollah's elite Radwan forces who was killed during an Israeli strike on south Lebanon in Khirbet Silem, January 9, 2024. Aziz Taher/Reuters

Unpacking the puzzle: Israel’s killing of Hezbollah’s commanders

The Lebanon-based militia has evolved its approach to losing senior personnel. These days, few who are felled are big names. Yet its problems go deeper than public relations

Lina Khatib 06 August 2024
A billboard portrait of slain leaders Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas (L), Iranian Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani (C), and Hezbollah senior commander Fuad Shukr (R) on the main road near Beirut Airport on August 3, 2024. Ibrahim Amro/AFP

Betrayed from within: how Israel thoroughly penetrated its enemy

Only with inside knowledge could Israel have killed so many senior figures from Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Iranian military. The axis of resistance needs to face facts: it is completely compromised

Alia Mansour 05 August 2024
Fares Garabet

Backs to the (same) wall (as the enemy)

Fares Garabet 05 August 2024
Participants in a memorial hold a photo of the Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, who was assassinated in Iran on 31 July 2024. Reuters

No easy options: Hamas enters into the politics of delusion

Netanyahu's government will stop at nothing to destroy the group behind 7 October and is prepared to make the Strip uninhabitable. To survive, Hamas only has difficult roads ahead

Majed Kayali 05 August 2024

A false 24-year claim about farmland killed 12 young footballers

A fascinating first-hand account from a former ambassador of the conversation about the Shebaa Farms that uncovered the lie that Hezbollah uses to justify its continued 'resistance' against Israel

Frederic C. Hof 03 August 2024
Smoke rises after an Israeli air-raid on the town of Shamaa (Chamaa) in southern Lebanon on August 1, 2024, amid ongoing cross-border clashes between Israeli troops and Hezbollah fighters. AFP

The politics of Israel’s unprecedented strikes in Beirut and Tehran

A gloating Benjamin Netanyahu gives himself leeway with his far-right coalition partners, but Israelis are in no mood to cheer, while Iran and Hezbollah are working out how to hit back

Michael Horowitz 02 August 2024
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Cyprus President Nikos Christodoulides and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis hold a joint press conference after a trilateral meeting in Jerusalem, on 22 December 2025. ABIR SULTAN / REUTERS
Politics

Israel seeks to revive the EastMed pipeline with an eye on Türkiye

24 December 2025

Netanyahu is once again exploiting historical grievances and fears to form alliances against "common threats"

Omer Onhon
AFP-Eduardo Ramon
Business & Economy

Diversification and growth: how Gulf economies fared in 2025

24 December 2025

Economic and technological dynamism characterised 2025, with ambitious initiatives aimed at accelerating non-oil growth, diversifying national economies, and ushering in regional integration

Amer Ziab Al-Tamimi
A picture of Farid al-Madhan, known as "Caesar," wearing a blue robe in the US Congress.
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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
An aerial view of the dome of the Palace of Fine Arts Museum in Mexico City, on 22 May 2024. AFP / Rodrigo Oropeza
Culture & Social Affairs

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

24 December 2025

On the margins of the Guadalajara International Book Fair, I was amazed by the sheer scale of the country's capital, home to 23 million, the mundane and the marvellous

Samer Abou Hawwach
Conservative political commentator and podcast host Tucker Carlson speaks at Turning Point's annual AmericaFest conference, in remembrance of late right-wing political activist Charlie Kirk, in Phoenix, Arizona, on 18 December 2025. OLIVIER TOURON / AFP
Politics

Israel is bleeding support on the US Christian right

23 December 2025

Israel's war on Gaza has cost it support among Christian conservatives—traditionally strong supporters of Israel—alarming pro-Israel forces who are scrambling to counter the phenomenon

Tarek Rashed

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