Iran's regime has continuously developed its capabilities required to deal with a full range of threats — from foreign military aggression, espionage and subversion to localised, civil unrest
Mariam Taha Thompson, a 62-year-old Lebanese-American who was a contract Arabic translator with the American forces in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, was sentenced last month to 23 years in jail for…
On February 15, 2020, Hezbollah organized a ceremony to unveil a statue of Qassem Soleimani in the Lebanese town of Maroun al-Ras, roughly half a mile from the border with Israel. The statue…
TheIslamic Republic of Iranhas suffered a loss with the assassination ofQassem Soleimani, its most prominent military general. The nature and dimensions of that injury, however, are not a simple…
“What is just retribution?” So askedHezbollahleaderHassan Nasrallahin a speech onJanuary 5, two days afterthe United Statesassassinated Iranian Quds Force commanderQasem Soleimaniand Iraqi Popular…
TheIslamic Republic of Iranhas suffered a loss with the assassination ofQassem Soleimani, its most prominent military general. The nature and dimensions of that injury, however, are not a simple…
For the majority of his 20-year career at the top of Iran’s Quds force,Qassem Soleimanimethodically operated in the shadows to build Iran’s vast network of proxies, militias and allies across the…
After taking Aleppo and Hama, armed Syrian opposition factions are making their way further south as the regime increasingly appears to be hollowing out
NATO's secretary general tells Al Majalla it's up to Kyiv to set the timing and conditions for talks with Moscow and affirms the alliance's strong ties with the Gulf and growing unease with China
The signs are bad but there is international agreement when it comes to Syria. If they act now, Arab states can still re-establish control over events, but the usual statements of support won't cut it
Gaza, repentance, sexual fluidity, child abduction, and football through adversity all feature in these longlisted works that together reflect the social realities and hopes of today's Middle East