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Eduardo Ramon

Striving for calm as Israel and Türkiye find more reasons to fight

Ankara and Tel Aviv have been at each other's throats for years, not least over Gaza, while a change in leadership in Syria has thrown fuel on the fire. Thankfully, there are deconfliction mechanisms.

Omer Onhon 02 June 2025
Lina Jaradat

Syria and Israel: the cost of peace

Al Majalla unpacks this new chapter in Middle East diplomacy, exploring the history behind the silence, present-day stakes, and the uncertain road ahead

Al Majalla - London 01 June 2025

Israel and Syria: an agenda for talks

An overarching Abraham Accords-like peace between Tel Aviv and Damascus is a far way off, but there is room for talks on more immediate issues

Itamar Rabinovich 01 June 2025
Lina Jaradat

It’s time for Syrian-Israeli dialogue

Syria's future will be forged through difficult decisions. And right now, what's best is to talk with Israel.

Ammar Abdulhamid 01 June 2025
People celebrate in Damascus' Umayyad square after US President Donald Trump's decision to lift sanctions in Syria, on May 13, 2025. Abdulaziz KETAZ / AFP

What next for Syria after US sanctions lifted?

Trump's decision was crucial to restoring Syria's international connections and improving its economic prospects. However, much more needs to be done to ensure peace and prosperity for its citizens.

Karam Shaar 31 May 2025
Aliaa Abou Khaddour

New Syria sanctions relief (and risks) explained

Firms relying on the recent wave of lifted sanctions and exceptive relief will face significant hurdles in verifying that transactions do not benefit excluded actors

Matt Zweig and Max Meizlish 30 May 2025

Frederic Hof: Israel-Syria peace is far off, but a truce is crucial

The former US envoy to Damascus tells Al Majalla how to find a path to a lasting settlement and a new place in the Middle East, from his unique perspective and first-hand experience in Assad-era talks

Johaina Khaldieh 28 May 2025

A Jewish family in Damascus, in their ancient Damascene home, in Ottoman Syria in 1901. Wikipedia

The Jews of Damascus: from King Faisal to Hafez al-Assad

Syrian Jews who left the country over the years visited recently following the collapse of Bashar al-Assad's regime. For the first time in decades, they prayed at the historic Al-Franj Synagogue.

Sami Moubayed 27 May 2025
Al Majalla

How the Assads plundered private property to cement power

An investigative report by Al Majalla details the manner and extent to which the former Syrian regime used legislation to seized citizens' property across the country

Heba Al Gül 25 May 2025
Lina Jaradat

The long-term challenges of reconstruction in the Middle East

Reconstruction projects will not be able to rely solely on direct grants and loans. Recovering economies will have to create conditions to attract regional and international investment as well.

Paul Salem 25 May 2025
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Politics

Change is coming in Iran

09 January 2026

Khamenei has struck a defiant tone amid growing protests against his regime, but a series of regional setbacks, coupled with an emboldened Trump, could finally bring it down

Arash Azizi
Forces that seized control of the Second Military Region Command on the outskirts of Al Mukalla, the capital of Hadramout, on 3 January 2026. AFP
Politics

Saudi Arabia's red line in Yemen explained

08 January 2026

Overcoming Yemen's fragmentation requires more support for the Riyadh-led path—one that rejects secession, all militias and institutionalises the state

Abdullah F. Alrebh
Al Majalla
Politics

5 unanswered questions about Trump’s Venezuela plan

06 January 2026

Maduro's exit doesn't mean the end of his government

Ravi Agrawal
Buses wait to enter the Sheikh Maqsoud neighbourhood to evacuate US-backed Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) force fighters from two districts of the city of Aleppo, northern Syria, on 9 January 2026. Bakr ALkasem / AFP
Politics

Clashes in Aleppo may be the creaking before the earthquake

10 January 2026

If fighting spreads beyond the predominantly Kurdish neighbourhoods of Ashrafieh and Sheikh Maqsoud and beyond Aleppo, there is a real risk that Syria could be dragged into a new civil war

Omer Onhon
Al Majalla
Documents & Memoirs

Putin foreshadowed the Ukraine war in 2008 meeting with Bush

06 January 2026

Recently declassified meeting minutes between the two leaders show how Washington was well aware of Moscow's grievances over NATO expansion, but went ahead anyway

Samer Elias

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