ع
Sections
  • Politics
  • Culture & Social Affairs
  • Business & Economy
  • Science & Technology
  • Documents & Memoirs
Regions
  • Gulf
  • MENA
  • Europe
  • USA
  • Asia
  • World
More
  • Videos
  • Cartoons
  • World in photos
  • Infographics
  • Profiles
  • Newsletter

LATEST ISSUE

Latest Issue
Magazine Archive
النسخة العربية
  • Politics
  • Culture & Social Affairs
  • Business & Economy
  • Science & Technology
  • Tag
  • tripoli

Soldiers from the Libyan Joint Forces during the opening ceremony of the "Flintlock-2026" exercises in Sirte, Libya, on 14 April 2026.
AFRICOM

US military exercise brings Libya’s rival factions together

The initiative runs alongside an agreed budget and political discussions on power-sharing facilitated by an American envoy, but Washington is concerned about the presence of foreign fighters

Rifaat Balkhair 25 April 2026
Former Libyan foreign minister, Mohammed al-Dairi AFP

Mohammed al-Dairi: Libyan state-building killed by corruption and division

Libya's former foreign minister, based in the country's east, says political decisions are no longer Libyan, as he recalls several missed opportunities since 2011.

Johaina Khaldieh 17 May 2025
Sadiq al-Kabir has run Libya’s finances for 13 years, building support and interest in global financial circles. Ewan White

Sadiq Al-Kabir: Libya’s increasingly dominant central banker

No stranger to rivalries, the governor of the Central Bank of Libya is technocrat who has had to develop his political wiles, most recently clashing with the prime minister. Is this the next Gaddafi?

Kawthar Zantour 21 July 2024

Libya’s politics of division

Since 2011, division and anarchy have engulfed the North African country. Today, it's split in half: one government in the east and another in the west

Ahmed Maher 22 June 2023
A picture of Lebanon's Prime Minister-designate Najib Mikati is placed on a residential building in the northern city of Tripoli, Lebanon September 23, 2022. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir

Poverty in Lebanon's 'City of Billionaires' Drives Deadly Migration

In the city from which Lebanon's richest politicians hail, the poorest residents once again mourn their dead. Among them, Mustafa Misto, a taxi driver in the city of Tripoli, and his three young…

25 September 2022
This file photo taken on September 24, 2020, shows the Brega oil port in Masra Brega, some 270Km west of Libya's eastern city of Benghazi. (Photo by AFP)

Libya Struggles with Self-Made Oil Crisis

In mid-April, the MENA growth forecast of the World Bank anticipated that the economies of Arab oil exporter countries “are expected to grow by 5.2% in 2022, the fastest rate since 2016, on the back…

Dalia Ziada 29 April 2022
1-	People wave Libyan national flags from a bus during a parade in the coastal Libyan city of Tajura, east of the capital Tripoli on February 25, 2022, as they commemorate the anniversary of a demonstration that took place on the same day from Tajura to Tripoli in 2011 during the uprising that toppled longtime strongman Muammar Kadhafi. (Photo by Mahmud Turkia / AFP)

Libya at the Crossroad of Election or War

While the international community is hyper-focused on Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine, Libya is on the brink of a slowly brewing civil war, that will be awfully difficult to control this time and…

Dalia Ziada 18 March 2022
  • Popular
  • Editor's Pick
In this image, taken from a video provided by the Russian Defence Ministry Press Service on 21 May 2026, a Russian navy seaman takes part in drills of Russia's nuclear forces. Russian Defence Ministry Press Service/AP
Politics

Russia’s timely reminder of its vast nuclear arsenal

03 June 2026

Military exercises in Belarus at an unusual time of year seem designed in part to make Moscow's adversaries think twice

Khattar Abu Diab
Opinion

Has Trump's patience with Netanyahu run out?

04 June 2026

The Israeli leader's intransigence is proving deeply problematic for the White House, so much so that Trump swore at him on a recent phone call

Con Coughlin
Units of Moqtada Sadr's militia parade with his photo down a main street of the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City June 21, 2014, in Eastern Baghdad. Washington Post
Politics

Sadr once again dismantles his armed militia. Why now?

03 June 2026

The decision to dismantle the Peace Brigades may herald a new stage in the Iraqi state's trajectory, or it could just be a shrewd recalibration to disorient friend and foe alike

Khairuldeen Al Makhzoomi
Adrián Astorgano
Business & Economy

Why people flock to the dollar when local currencies collapse

05 June 2026

An estimated 60% of all US banknotes in circulation are held outside the United States. In many parts of the world, the dollar is effectively the unofficial local currency. Al Majalla explains why.

Abdel-Rahman Ayas
A Royal Caribbean cruise sails into the Havana harbour on 6 May 2019, after the activation of Chapter III of the Helms-Burton Act, which sought to intensify the US blockade against Cuba. YAMIL LAGE / AFP
Politics

Cuba, lawfare, and Trump’s Venezuela temptation

02 June 2026

A new American legal ruling turns the screw on the Caribbean island nation by increasing the risks companies face by continuing to make money there. This is all part of the plan.

Stefanie Butendieck Hijerra

Sign up for the Weekly Newsletter

Get the best of Al Majalla, straight to your inbox.

Your newsletter subscriptions are subject to Al Majalla privacy policy and terms and conditions.

OPINIONS

Why people flock to the dollar when local currencies collapse

Abdel-Rahman Ayas
Abdel-Rahman Ayas

Roman Gofman: Israel's new Netanyahu-friendly Mossad chief

Kamal Alam
Kamal Alam

Lower migrant numbers hand Starmer a rare political win

Con Coughlin
Con Coughlin

Al Majalla's Book Watch

Khodr Al Agha
Khodr Al Agha
MORE FROM OPINIONS
logo
  • Politics
  • Culture & Social Affairs
  • Business & Economy
  • Science & Technology
  • Documents & Memoirs
  • Gulf
  • MENA
  • Europe
  • USA
  • Asia
  • World
  • Videos
  • Cartoons
  • World in photos
  • Infographics
  • Profiles
  • About Al Majalla
  • Al Majalla Team
  • Terms of Service
  • Privacy Policy
  • Contact us
logo

© Al Majalla Magazine. All Rights Reserved.

0:00:00
0:00:00