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Saddam Haftar attends a military parade in Benghazi. AFP

Libya’s intransigent factions test US push for unity

Power-sharing between east and west should be possible, but negotiations get tricky when it comes to dividing revenues and remits. Will the two rival families agree to compromise?

Tarek Megerisi 02 July 2026
Richard N. Haass, Senior Counsellor, Centerview Partners, speaks onstage during the Reindustrialise Conference 2025 on 17 July 2025, in Detroit, Michigan. TASOS KATOPODIS / AFP

Richard Haass on America’s changing global role

In an interview with Al Majalla, the senior US diplomat says that while the US may no longer play the role of world policeman, it is not isolationist either

Ibrahim Hamidi 03 January 2026
Donald Trump poses with his new special envoy to Iraq Mark Savaya Mark Savaya on X

Mark Savaya: is Trump's new envoy to Iraq up to the task?

He will be expected to play an active role in getting Iraq to disband armed factions, as pressure from Washington is expected to intensify

Aqeel Abbas 08 November 2025
British diplomat Martin Griffiths was UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs until 2024 and has worked throughout the Middle East. Barbara Gibson

Martin Griffiths: let’s state facts, this is genocide in Gaza

The seasoned British diplomat and barrister who, until recently, was the United Nations' Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, speaks to Al Majalla about the Middle East.

Ibrahim Hamidi 23 July 2025
Steve Witkoff's proposal (in Arabic) for a 60-day ceasefire.

Full text of Witkoff’s US Gaza ceasefire deal, plus Hamas response

Donald Trump's Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff drafted a document outlining the main points for a 60-day ceasefire in Gaza. Al Majalla publishes it in full, alongside the response it got from Hamas.

Al Majalla - London 04 June 2025
Morgan Ortagus AFP_Al Majalla

Morgan Ortagus: Trump’s blunt new Middle East envoy

Alongside Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, Ortagus is prepared to furrow brows in a region known for its sensitivities. In fact, she has already started.

Aqeel Abbas 11 February 2025
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Al-Jawf: the key to defeating the Houthis

05, Nov 2026

The battle for this strategically important and resource-rich province tests the Yemeni army's ability to tilt the military balance in its favour

Al Majalla - London
Saudi Arabia's Defence Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman Al-Saud, Pakistan's army chief General Syed Asim Munir, and Turkey's intelligence chief Ibrahim Kalin in Tehran on 26 October 2026. IRANIAN PRESIDENCY / AFP
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Pakistan’s balancing act in a fragmenting world

07, Nov 2026

Staying friends with the Turks, Chinese, Russians, Americans, Europeans, Iranians and Saudis simultaneously is a big ask for Islamabad's diplomats, but somehow they are managing it

Kaswar Klasra
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Can the Democrats prevent a new round of war with Iran?

05, Nov 2026

Despite the war's unpopularity, Trump seems determined to press on until he can claim a decisive victory, whether by diplomacy, force, or a combination of the two

Aqeel Abbas
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Profiles

Abdul El-Sayed: the progressive Michigander who beat the pro-Israel lobby

07, Aug 2026

The Egyptian-American epidemiologist became the first Muslim senator in US history, despite $70mn spent to defeat him in the Democratic primary

Tarek Rashed
French author Philippe Djianada looks out from a window at the Drouant restaurant in Paris, following his win of the French Goncourt literary prize for his novel "The Unknown Woman of Quai de Javel," on 3 November 2026. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann
Culture & Social Affairs

A novel about a murder in Paris wins the 2026 Goncourt

06, Nov 2026

French novelist Philippe Jaenada's novel 'The Unknown Woman of Quai de Javel' wins big, while the Prix Renaudot goes to François-Henri Désérable for his novel about an unlikely wine expert

Najeeb Mubarak

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