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Intended as a means of avoiding future deadly conflagrations, nations' refusal to impose sanctions and targeted countries' ability to circumvent them made them ineffective in many cases Nash Weerasekera

“Eat grass”: The problematic record of sanctions

Intended as a means of avoiding future deadly conflagrations, nations' refusal to impose sanctions and targeted countries' ability to circumvent them made them ineffective in many cases

Steve Hewitt 28 April 2024
Israeli soldiers of the Jewish Ultra-Orthodox battalion "Netzah Yehuda" hold morning prayers as they take part in their annual unit training in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, near the Syrian border on May 19, 2014. MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP

Israel fears US sanctions on army battalion could open the floodgates

Israel fears that such action—if taken in Washington—could then be taken by other Israeli allies, whether against Netzah Yehuda or any other military unit

Sherine Younes 26 April 2024
Is the Russian bear right to be bullish on its economy? The answer is not straightforward. Laura Salafia

After two years of war, can Russia be bullish on its economy?

Despite sanctions, a brain drain, investor withdrawal, inflation, high interest rates, falling oil prices and reducing reserves, Vladimir Putin thinks Russia's economy is A-grade. Is it?

Nazareth Seferian 22 February 2024
An Aeroflot-Russian Airlines passenger plane lands at Moscow International Airport, 12 March 2022. Reuters

Fight or Flight? How war in Ukraine has affected airlines

Closure, airspace, sanctions, spare parts, subsidies, re-registrations, and re-routing woes plague carriers that used to fly over Russia. How has it affected their bottom line? Al Majalla explains.

Nazareth Seferian 14 January 2024
Politics were played down when Russia brought former Soviet states into a trading bloc to counter the EU. But suspicions over deeper motives were there from the start. Sanctions are a major test. Alex William

Putin’s war on Ukraine deepens doubts over the Eurasian Economic Union

Politics were played down when Russia brought former Soviet states into a trading bloc to counter the EU. But suspicions over deeper motives were there from the start. Sanctions are a major test.

Nazareth Seferian 05 October 2023
Al Majalla takes a deep dive into the evolution of US sanctions against Syria, the Caesar Act’s critical role in that evolution and how these sanctions place a ceiling on Arab normalisation with Damascus. Luca D'Urbino

How the Caesar Act restricts normalisation with Syria

A deep dive into the evolution of US sanctions against Syria, the Caesar Act's critical role in that evolution and how these sanctions place a ceiling on Arab normalisation with Damascus.

Andrew Tabler and Matthew Zweig 17 June 2023
Protesters gather in support of Iranian women and against the death of Mahsa Amini at Callao square in Madrid, Spain, October 1, 2022. REUTERS/Isabel Infantes

Germany, Others in EU Plan Iran Sanctions Over Protests Clampdown

Germany, France, Denmark, Spain, Italy and the Czech Republic have submitted 16 proposals for new European Union sanctions against Iran for its violent crackdown on protests over women's rights, a…

03 October 2022
Firefighters and Ukrainian army soldiers search for bodies of people killed during a Russian attack, among the remains of a building beside a TV tower, in the recently liberated town of Izium, Kharkiv region, Ukraine September 28, 2022. REUTERS/ Zohra Bensemra

Russia Set to Annex Ukraine Territory; West Warns of New Sanctions

Russia was poised to annex a swath of Ukraine within days, releasing what it called vote tallies showing overwhelming support in four provinces to join it, after what Ukraine and the West denounced…

29 September 2022
A combine harvests wheat in a field in the settlement of Vinodelnensky in the Stavropol region, Russia June 28, 2016. REUTERS/Eduard Korniyenko

Sovecon Ups Forecast For Russia's 2022/23 Wheat Exports

The Russia-focused Sovecon consultancy said on Monday it had raised its forecast for Russia's wheat exports in the 2022/23 marketing season which started on July 1 by 200,000 tons to 43.1 million…

29 August 2022
Street food vendor Warunee Deejai cooks lunch for customers in Bangkok, Thailand, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022. In the six months since Russia invaded Ukraine, the fallout from the war has had huge effects on the global economy. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Russia’s War at 6 Months: A Global Economy in Growing Danger

Martin Kopf needs natural gas to run his family’s company, Zinkpower GmbH, which rustproofs steel components in western Germany. Zinkpower’s facility outside Bonn uses gas to keep 600 tons of zinc…

AP 21 August 2022
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Lebanon’s challenge to disarm Hezbollah

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Al Majalla tackles the latest developments, including signals from Washington and Riyadh, as well as Tehran's red lines

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Syria’s post-Assad energy quandary

01 September 2025

The country now sits at an energy crossroads: will its recovery be anchored in oil and gas, or will it seize the chance to lean into renewables and build something more resilient?

Jesse Marks
Displaced Sudanese children gather at a camp near the town of Tawila in North Darfur on February 11, 2025, amid the ongoing war between the army and paramilitary forces. AFP
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The tragedy of Sudan’s forgotten war

02 September 2025

Two-and-a-half years into Sudan's brutal war, atrocities are commonplace, millions have been displaced, and foreign-backed militias profit from chaos

Amgad Fareid Eltayeb
People mourn for Palestinian journalists Moaz Abu Taha and Hussam al-Masri, a Reuters contractor, who were killed in an Israeli strike on Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis in Gaza on August 25, 2025, along with 15 others. AFP
Culture & Social Affairs

'Genocide didn't unfold in Gaza; it was the intent all along'

25 August 2025

A new book by Lebanese jurist Mazen Shindab provides an invaluable legal resource on the genocide in Gaza, laying bare the flaws of international law and the moral imperative to hold Israel to account

Abdul Rahman Mazhar Halloush
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Politics

Are land grabs becoming the norm in today's world?

25 August 2025

Trump's willingness to cede Ukrainian land to Russia will have global repercussions, but the acceptance of land seizures actually goes back decades, with Israel being a serial offender

Christopher Phillips

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